If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

I look at tennis as a bit of a platform to hopefully touch lives and encourage people.

Man has been slipping backward for ages. The more advanced we became the more primitive we grew.

Passion cannot be beautiful without excess; one either loves too much or not enough.

I think that the episodes are like mini horror films really; the characters make bad decisions early on and these things just snowball for them and get worse and worse. And that's what I find funny.

Sometimes you have to watch somebody love something before you can love it yourself.

Praise follows truth afar off, and only overtakes her at the grave; plausibility clings to her skirts and holds her back till then

The hardest thing for a basketball player to do is dribble two really hard dribbles. You are flying, and then pull up and shoot a ball from 15, 17 feet. It's the hardest thing in the game.

Assurance is not to be obtained so much by self-examination as by action

One of the best things about directing movies, as opposed to merely writing them, is that there's no confusion about who's to blame: You are.

If it's OK to register cars and license drivers, why is it not OK to impose similar legal responsibilities on gun owners?

A good football team plays offense and defense. You have to be aggressive and disrupt.