If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

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.

If you place two flowers in the same vase, they will not argue over who is more beautiful.

Grown up, and that is a terribly hard thing to do. It is much easier to skip it and go from one childhood to another.

Ideas are not in textbooks and journals, Ideas are more deeper than the shallow written works of men. You are the idea that comes like an idea.

Marriage is an act of will that signifies and involves a mutual gift, which unites the spouses and binds them to their eventual souls, with whom they make up a sole family - a domestic church.

The continuum is that which is divisible into indivisibles that are infinitely divisible.

Virtue is not solitary; it is bound to have neighbors

Life is to short to be little.

Field hockey is my strongest sport, and if I lose a game, I take a long, hot bath and moan about it.

I don't know; it just seemed like the cooler guys are playing Xbox. At least the ones I know.

Arrogance is one of the flaws in the Erudite heart -- I know. It is often in mine.