It is very important not to think about losing.

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.

My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

Everything about her was sweet, pale like honey. You would not have been surprised to see a bee caught in the tangles of that yellow hair.

Questions show the mind's range, and answers its subtlety.

Feel guilty. Mourn this. But move on. Don't let it destroy you. Forgive yourself.

We have a saying in the House of Commons; that old ways are the safest and surest ways.

The honeymoon is the only period when a woman isn't trying to reform her husband.

Of course, Soviet people would like to see the face of surrounding states changed, but that is the business of the surrounding states.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

Certainly the animation technology is growing like crazy. All media technology is.

And now you've lost the only thing that ever made you feel alive.

Bodies wear out to remind us they are temporary, and force us to spend more thought on our spirits