When you struggle winning matches all year and you don't really get into a groove or rhythm, you just can't expect to just come in here and have it click.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

The time we are living in has its own conditions, peculiarities and standards

A good listener is one who always pays attention, not to gain, but to learn.

It takes courage to live in the midst of hate. And it requires strength to keep that hatred from eating your soul.

When all beliefs are challenged together, the just and necessary ones have a chance to step forward and re-establish themselves alone.

I like being a pin-up girl. There's nothing wrong with it.

One of the good things about the profession of being a professor, is that you also have time to do what interests you and what you care about or what you're good at.

Knowledge was like a mouthful of dust.

Even if you accept the theory of man-made climate change, wind turbines are a rotten way to reduce CO2 emissions, or to improve energy security.

Houses, like faces, hide all kinds of memories.