The great high of winning Wimbledon lasts for about a week. You go down in the record book, but you don't have anything tangible to hold on to. But having a baby -- there isn't any comparison.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Do not let another day go by where your dedication to other people's opinions is greater than your dedication to your own emotions!

I'd rather be a failure at something I enjoy than a success at something I hate.

You dream as an actor's director of letting moments breathe through two-shots.

The richest most meaningful stories are found in small places: made, carried, crafted, told, and retold by apparently unimportant people.

It's so easy to be wicked without knowing it, isn't it?

Comedians have a huge carte blanche and the ability to get away with saying a lot of things.

...I mean, you don't just love people, you must LOVE them with exclamation points.

I have rules about eating, exercising and rules about staying positive. And these rules are sacred to me.

The great thing about cheap natural gas, again it's cheap, and it provides a cleaner alternative to coal. But it's still a fossil fuel, and because it's still a fossil fuel, it still emits carbon.

The lifeblood of Christianity is not our persistence in moving toward God but God's persistence in moving toward us.