If you have confidence you have patience. Confidence, that is everything.

I haven't reported my missing credit card to the police because whoever stole it is spending less than my wife.

Sometimes I feel like tap-dancing, screeching, unscrewing light bulbs, pulling curtains, combing hair, doing knee bends, handstands and turning somersaults out there.

My ambition is to do a good job. I never plan anything.

I was always rather nasty. I was willing to be friends with the Devil, just to cross the bridge.

As long as I can get angry then I play well. If I play well I can beat everybody. I am happy because I am getting angry.

One day when a linesman starts to laugh I swear I will hit the guy over the head with my racket. I think it will be the end of my career, but I will be happy.

Federer said something interesting once. He said that he was watching Rod Laver, and me, and he said he was trying to copy us and to be like us. And that’s a great compliment for us.

Whoever stole it is spending less money than my wife.

Don't loaf and invite inspiration light out after it with a club.

Sometimes failing gives you the opportunity to build a better foundation.

There is no end. There is no beginning. There is only the passion of life.

It is impossible to get the measure of what an individual can accomplish unless the responsibility is given him.

TV is, as I'm discovering now, a marathon. You have to keep going and going and going.

If we just planned for everything we could, we’d make it through everything we couldn’t.

I need to be able to write a poem after every film and to kind of cleanse myself from the character because for about three months or so, I'm constantly living through the character's eyes.

The repercussion of ugliness is endless.

To reach the Land of Calmness, you must pass through the Land of Storms! All heavens require hard struggling!

Love didn't run on logic. It didn't follow neat lines or a list of priorities.