If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

He went to hell and back, to shut the door of his past, he would not let that door be opened again by others.

Any object of thought is both 'more than what we think, and different'.

Since January 1993 there have been 27 other countries not in the EU that have done better than the UK at exporting goods into the single market.

Words seem like drops of water in a stream that has its own wholeness and its own motion.

There are two impossibilities in life: "just one drink" and "an honest politician."

In relations with people, as in art, if you always stick to style, manners, and what will work, and you're never caught off guard, then some beautiful experiences never happen.

My dad brings a deep-seated knowledge of the British folk genre, and a lot of my love for guitar playing comes from learning from him and his influences, which eventually became my influences.

Giving up a lot of yourself isn't really that hard when you realize that you get more than you give up.

Science is beautiful when it makes simple explanations of phenomena or connections between different observations.

I always sit in the tail end of a plane, always. You never hear of an plane backing into a mountain.