I've never felt nervous in front of big crowds and in big stadiums.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

A couple of times in your life, it happens like that. You meet a stranger, and all you know is that you need to know everything about him.

On the other side of fear is your breakthrough.

Equality may perhaps be a right, but no power on earth can ever turn it into a fact.

People think I rush around all day long like a raving lunatic. I'm much more relaxed than that.

There is a certain kind of maturity that can be attained only through the discipline of suffering.

Where God gives vision He always provides provision

I very much consider the Internet a garden, and I'm a gardener, and I plant things in it and I work within the framework of the soil, the seasons, the climate, and the temperature, to produce plants.

We are all meant to be mothers of God, for God is always needing to be born.

Sometimes Howard [Cosell] makes me wish I was a dog and he was a fireplug.

The rose is often found near the nettle.