You are always talking about yourself and tennis and how you are feeling. I try to avoid it when I don't have to.

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.

This was a cruel world she had been born into, all pink and squirming. She'd never wanted to see reality. Now, like the cold, it was impossible to ignore.

Even if the decisions one made on a given day seemed crazy, it helped to think that all things happened for a mysterious reason.

Questioning anything within doubt, will just bring mind to no certainty.

No government can help the destinies of people who insist in putting sectional and class consciousness ahead of general weal.

I did my first film with Francis Ford Copploa which spoiled the hell out of me.

I just live and let live and live my life pretty much according to the Golden Rule. And it turns out well for me.

Look beneath the surface; let not the several quality of a thing nor its worth escape thee.

Children cannot eat rhetoric and they cannot be sheltered by commissions. I don't want to see another commission that studies the needs of kids. We need to help them.

Speaking absolutely, humility excels virginity.

Never lie to people, because the people you are able to lie to, are the people who trust you.