When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

I don't read all the newspapers.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

I'm happy in retirement.

Perseverance is the enemy of doubt.

Kate giggled. “Excellent choice.”“I always make excellent choices.”“I don’t know about that.”“Of course I do. I picked ye, didn’t I?

Growing up in the 70s and 80s, it took effort to be a nerd. You had to seek out the nerd stuff.

Love is feared: it dissolves society, it's unpopular, and it's very rare.

Desire, said the Buddha, is the cause of suffering. But without desire, what delight?

We don't have to engage in grand, heroic actions to participate in the process of change. Small acts, when multiplied by millions of people, can transform the world.

Social class means a hell of a lot and upper class people - no matter how well [Franklin ] Roosevelt did - it was stylish to hate him.

I deny the lawfulness of telling a lie to a sick man for fear of alarming him; you have no business with consequences, you are to tell the truth.

To go against the dominant thinking of your friends, of most of the people you see every day, is perhaps the most difficult act of heroism you can perform.

When he is best, he is a little worse than a man; and when he is worst, he is little better than a beast.