There are many moments during a match when you are tense, wrestling with yourself. Tennis is a lesson in self-control.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

It would ha' been a good deal easier, if ye'd only been a witch.

We think we can make honey without sharing in the fate of bees, but we are in truth nothing but poor bees, destined to accomplish our task and then die.

Boredom is rage spread thin.

Patience is idling your motor when you feel like stripping a gear.

There is no solution to death.Life intends to kill us.

A man calumniated is doubly injured -- first by him who utters the calumny, and then by him who believes it.

The more film I watch, the more John Ford looks like a giant. His politics aren't so good, and you have to learn to accept John Wayne as an actor, but he's a poet in black and white.

Death is birth into the realm of the spirit.

The Duce will have Ethiopia, with or without the Ethiopians.

I was better at both ends, defensively and offensively, It was more of a well-rounded game. I want to add to that.