The crowds are very important for tennis. It makes you play better, but it can also make you nervous and that's the beauty of it.

I always believe if you're stuck in a hole and maybe things aren't going well you will come out stronger. Everything in life is this way.

There is no way around the hard work. Embrace it.

You have to believe in the long term plan you have but you need the short term goals to motivate and inspire you.

I fear no one, but respect everyone.

A man who wins, is a man who thinks he can.

Once you find that peace, that place of peace and quiet, harmony and confidence, that's when you start playing your best.

When you're good at something, make that everything

I am a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

When you do something best in life, you don't really want to give that up - and for me it's tennis.

The one thing you can do for sure is push the luck on your side

The Sufi teacher’s mission is to be in the service of those who can learn.

Every word she writes is a lie, including ‘and’ and ‘the’."(on Lillian Hellman)

Gene, you wouldn’t know a good story if it was tattooed on the end of your prick.

Remember we are all connected by a garland we call love.

A boy has never wept...nor dashed a thousand kin

England always seems to me like a man swimming with his clothes on his head.

It's always hard to talk about the culture that you are from, especially with Islam, it is a very sensitive subject and I don't want to be seen to be adding to the problems of Islam and the west.

My black friends never asked me how much money I made, or what school my children went to, or anything like that. They just said, "Come as you are."

The resistance is not something to be avoided, it's something to seek out.

They never ask the celebrities why they don't wear their own clothes on the red carpet.