I was an emotional basket case.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

You have to block everything out and be extremely focused and be relaxed and mellow too.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

You don't have to live by someone else's rules. Do what you want. Be free.

And his good wife will tear her cheeks in grief, his sons are orphans and he, soaking the soil red with his own blood, he rots away himself—more birds than women flocking round his body!

The potatoes were starch grenades. The canned carrots were revolting because that is their nature.

Many people take a very low view of politicians, but that is exactly how they conduct their social interactions daily

That was the way things worked. When you were looking for the big fight, the moment that you thought would knock everything over, nothing much happened at all.

Think not because you are now wed That all your courtship's at an end.

Planned Parenthood and Human Rights Campaign are standing up and fighting the important fights that have to be fought.

I'm comfortable being old... being black... being Jewish.

Punk is the way of those who are unable to express themselves, but they aren't dangerous; at worst, they may kill their audience.

I might not know where you are or what you are doing right now, but if you hear my voice will you come to me?