Obviously you try to keep as much of your private life as private as you can.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

We walked to meet each other up at the time of our love and then we have been irresistibly drifting in different directions, and there's no altering that.

The mansion was as silent as I wished the inside of my head could be. No noise – not even a ragged inhale of breath or a whispered word. Truly blissful.

Thanks to Scoop, I've learned a lot about how the male mind works, and as a result I've been having nightmares for months.

The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.

The tumultuous populace of large cities are ever to be dreaded. Their indiscriminate violence prostrates for the time all public authority, and its consequences are sometimes extensive and terrible.

I've always wanted the IQ of a rock. No, wait. That would be an insult to the rock.

Women are scolded both for being mothers and for not being mothers, for wanting to eat their cake and have it too, and for not wanting to eat their cake and have it too.

I do notice that when I come in to meet casting people, they love that I'm Australian. Maybe it's our good work ethic.

Nothing is harder to topple than a fact that supports a deeply held prejudice denied by its holder.