My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.

At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.

In the States, tennis is sixth or seventh on the totem pole as far as sports go.

You can get the true essence of New Yorkers by just hanging out in Central Park

My serve has killed a small dog ... I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!

If I can break one out of every three return games, I'm going to give myself a shot in a lot of matches.

Once you get to a certain level, anybody can beat anybody else on any given day.

I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.

The key to the match might have been his serving. Maybe I should have concentrated harder on watching them go by me, I don't know.

I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.

I'm not going to go run and hide because I'm catching some heat. I'm not going to stay at home and pout.

I think sometimes I think too damn much. I worry about this and that and everything else and then I wake up and four more years have slipped right out the back door.

It was another country. It was a country for the young, a country where you died before you got old.

Anytime you're tempted to upsell someone else, stop what you're doing and upserve instead.

He was like my father. They each wanted me to be their audience, to hear the things they needed to express.

Creating something new is easy, creating something that lasts is the challenge.

I was only in one of the John Hughes films, and I never saw the other ones. I didn't understand them. I kept hearing a really hip 40-year-old person talking in teenagers' mouths.

Climate change is not an environmental issue, but much more to do with security and economics

I know there is pressure to present a nice tidy story as regards 'apparent unprecedented warming in a thousand years or more in the proxy data' but in reality the situation is no quite so simple.

Scholars have long known that fishing eventually turns men into philosophers. Unfortunately, it is almost impossible to buy decent tackle on a philosopher's salary.

It is my hope that I could be not just a Prime Minister, but a Prime Minister for Aboriginal affairs, the first I imagine that we've ever had.