I wanted to take on a little bit more of a leadership role. I'm getting older and things are coming to me more and I have to take responsibility for that.

If you want to be successful, you are going to have to deal with pressure.

You can't be afraid to get back up and try again, and you really can't do that unless you acknowledge the failure.

I'm real conscious about money still. That's how I came up and you can't shake that.

Leaders set the tone for their peers. Peers look up to them and say, 'They're doing it, so I'm doing it.'

Sometimes you surprise yourself with what you do under pressure.

Experience has taught me a lot, and I don't want to let that fall by the wayside.

If somebody attacks me with words, I'm always like, Do you know me? Do you know me that well? Let's have a beer and talk about it.

I wouldn't like to make anybody cry, I don't dislike anybody. It doesn't even matter - the opponent is always faceless.

I can motivate myself fine just by wanting to be my best.

The stereotype of a leader is one who talks and peps people up and things like that, but in actuality you have to listen to your teammates.

There is an old saying, that in the desert a camel is more useful than a kingdom, " he said ruefully, "but as a location for lovemaking, it leaves a lot to be desired.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

Despair ruins some, presumption many.

Once you really commence to see things, then you really commence to feel things.

To take an unequivocal stand, it seems to me, is of greater heuristic value and far more likely to stimulate constructive criticism than to evade the issue.

Nothing opens the heart like a true friend, to whom you may impart griefs, joys, fears, hopes...and whatever lies upon the heart.

Where there is no desire or pursuits, there is no wholeness. But there are satisfying lesser states, fragments.

But an adult if he is to provide proper guidance, must always be calm and act slowly so that the child who is watching him can clearly see his actions in all their particulars.

I think people don't talk enough about education and what we need to do in our public education system.

Names come and names go.