Tennis is a very objective sport in the sense that the scoreboard doesn't lie.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

He remembered the gracefulness with which she moved in battle—like liquid flesh. There was no one quite like his wife, and he never felt more triumphant and free than when he was in her company.

To be a writer, open your heart. Keep it open. You can't be a writer with a closed heart.

The evaporation of 4 million who believe in this crap would leave the world a better place.

When I was under house arrest, it was the BBC that spoke to me - I listened.

Niceness is the psychological armor of the people-pleaser.

They don't pay you a million dollars for two-hand chest passes.

Conspicuously absent from the Ten Commandments is any obligation of parent to child. We must suppose that God felt it unnecessary to command by law what He had ensured by love.

A cynic who was still saddened whenever his jaundiced view of mankind was confirmed.

People know where romantic comedies are going. It's not brain surgery to figure out the end of a romantic comedy.

There is but one right, and the possibilities of wrong are infinite.