It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

... the winner is the one who believes in victory more.

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

It's just as important to be around people that influence stable mental health as it is working towards it.

Meditation on scriptures is soothing to the soul.

Life is just the same as learning to swim. Do not be afraid of making mistakes, for there is no other way of learning how to live!

Leadership implies movement toward something and convictions provide that direction.

Stravinsky used Mother Goose. He was influenced by Mother Goose, indirectly, but very beautifully

Once more I am a wanderer, a pilgrim, through the world. But what else are you?

I played saxophone and trumpet. Pretty nerdy.

And I never believed that the multitude / of dreams and many words were vain.

When all else fails, give up and go to the library.

It's similar to the way you feel cuddling an infant or a kitten, when you want to squeeze it so hard you'd kill it.