Last four months were great for me, was probably one of the best four months of my career, playing unbelievable in the clay court season.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

For to be free is not merely to cast off one's chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others.

When I was coming up through the ranks, not that many people carried a lot money of money on them. This was before checks and credit cards.

I would say that what the value of talking about and thinking about a dome over Manhattan is that [Buckminster] Fuller has identified a scale of action I think is actually really compelling.

The whole apparatus of the calculus takes on an entirely different form when developed for the complex numbers.

Fans, for the past two weeks you have been reading about a bad break I got. Yet today, I consider myself the luckiest man on the face of the earth.

Loving you is just like breathing, as effortless, and as lovely.

We're not going to act in a soft way for what we believe needs to be done.

Daft as a brush? I'm daft, but I'm not daft as a brush!

You knock at the door of Reality. You shake your thought wings, loosen your shoulders, and open.

You need to paint with enough assurance and confidence to know you can do whatever you like.