When I'm training in December, I have to eat like 6,000 calories a day to maintain my weight. It's a bit tiring.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

I feel sorry for anyone who is in a place where he feels strange and stupid.

Democracy doesn't mean spreading terror.

Some of the greatest masterpieces of art are created against the odds of reality.from the book: stuff i think about

A terrorist is the most foolish and naïve. He is drunk with fixed false beliefs that killing his neighbors will result in going to heaven.

I was wasting my life, always thinking about myself.

this heart yearns...for the salt of unsmelt airunswept thunderstorms...unknown adventures.

Today’s experience prepares you for better tomorrow.

I did feel from day one that I was a born performer.

Everything that is true is authentic.

The Romans rightly employed the same word (virtus) to designate courage, which is, in a physical sense, what the other is in a moral; the highest virtue of all being victory over ourselves.