My goal is to improve my game, stay healthy and be competitive. If I have that, I know I can be able to win tournaments, which in the end is what it counts.

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.

You cannot step into the same river twice

In Defense of the World Order . . . U.S. soldiers would have to kill and die.

I understand that anything actors are doing, good or bad, is motivated by fear.

The thing that I still come back away with is how close so many people feel to the mountain [Mt. Rainier] emotionally and psychically, and yet how far away the world is when you're on the mountain.

It's a neat experience to go from the blank page to an actor elevating it to the audience understanding it - the full life of that is why I became a writer.

Academic education is the act of memorizing things read in books, and things told by college professors who got their education mostly by memorizing things read in books.

You can't lie to your soul.

There is no greater pleasure than having a dog. And that's a scientific fact!

I like to roller skate. I have been roller skating since I was eight.

Evil is like water, it abounds, is cheap, soon fouls, but runs itself clear of taint.