If you are playing bad you are going to lose here, on clay, on ice, or on the beach.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

The important thing for any writer to remember is to take the writing seriously, but not the writer.

Religious ritual is a way of structuring time so that we, not employers, the market or the media, are in control. Life needs its pauses, its chapter breaks, if the soul is to have space to breathe.

I realized what interested me as a student of film was one thing and the movies that I liked were another.

Dogmatism is the greatest of mental obstacles to human happiness.

If you cultivate your body, your mind, your emotions, and your energies to a certain level of maturity, meditation will blossom.

When you come slam bang up against trouble, it never looks half as bad if you face up to it.

Many share my views with me. But I don't share them with them.

All that one gives to others one gives to one's self. If this truth is understood, who will not give to others?

We live by the sun, we feel by the moon, we love by the stars. We live in all things, all things live in us.

If there be no enemy there's no fight. If no fight, no victory and if no victory there is no crown.