If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

All hockey players are bilingual. They know English and profanity.

Old age may have its limitations and challenges, but in spite of them, our latter years can be some of the most rewarding and fulfilling of our lives.

What I like about acting is that you can be a different person every day.

You could be married and bored or single and lonely. Ain't no happiness nowhere.

The more expanded your sense of self, the more possibilities are released from the level of the soul.

Some kind of way, we have to say enough is enough.

I don't know anyone who enjoys going to the hospital. To help remedy this, I got an idea to create what a Laugh Room in the pediatric ward of hospitals.

African-American voters are not nearly as enthusiastic about [Hillary] Clinton as they were about [Barack] Obama.

LOVE is what gives joy to giving joy.

To convert somebody go and take them by the hand and guide them.