My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!

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.

The observer of the soul cannot penetrate into the soul, but there doubtless is a margin where he comes into contact with it.

History is indeed stranger than fiction. The twists and turns of human history are too outlandish for to be believable in any work of fiction.

If you cannot see it, you will not be it

There was a hazy damp film in his eyes that I recognized from emotions in old movies, projected large on darkened screens.

Somehow there was a lack of communication - She thought he said: "Till debt do us part."

The new definition of a heathen is a man who has never played baseball.

Sometimes your higher self will guide you to make mistakes so you can learn lessons.

Give me those days with heart in riot, The depths of bliss that touched on pain, The force of hate, and love's disquiet- Ah, give me back my youth again!

I'm lyrically driven, I'm not musically driven.

The state of faith allows no mention of impossibility.