People want to criticize everything you do. People criticize Pacquiao, Mayweather or Obama, everyone that is at the top of their game.

If you stay consistent to the sport you will eventually get good, but you have to just want it more to be the best.

I hate to lose and even as an amateur I won every tournament I was in.

I can't say that I have a biggest inspiration because I look at all positive inspirations. My mom, my dad and my coach, too, inspire me. No one is bigger. I just use it all and take it and use it.

Genius does not need to be validated, it just needs a legal pad and a pen.

The main problem is to free your mind when you play. I find that in my own playing, whenever I feel any kind of tension, I'm restricted to playing the most fundamental kinds of things.

All other love is extinguished by self-love; beneficence, humanity, justice, philosophy, sink under it.

It is far better to foresee even without certainty than not to foresee at all.

I'll be here where the heart is

Your taste in music is excellent. It exactly coinsides with my own!

The world needs a better understanding of how to encourage innovation. And innovators need to get better at it. Sign me up.

Each of us is like a diamond, and each of us has the potential to be brilliant.