You know, it doesn't happen that often that you have the crowd support behind you straightaway from the beginning of the match.

Athletes have a certain stubbornness that carries us through and makes us do things that people say we can't do.

You don't have to hate your opponents to beat them.

I'm not really playing for the money, ... I just want to go out there and have fun. I really missed it so much last year.

It was tough, I gave everything I had on those match points but she just came up with better shots. I still find it very hard to believe. Its amazing.

When I marry my name will not change.

I've worked really hard, but it's definitely not been easy.

People get so stressed and nervous and mad.

Well, there's no monkey on my back.

All my time in rehab has made me appreciate tennis more than ever.

Physically, I feel extremely well, perhaps fitter than ever.

Above all, if what you've done is stupid, but it works, it ain't stupid.

She had something more than material value ~ she had a soul, no money could buy.

You can't really be strong until you see a funny side to things.

My father was my hero, and he died when I was 11. So, I really never experienced the kind of natural teenage rebellion or the anger at him. I never experienced those feelings as a young person.

Peace is a very complicated concept. When the lion gobbles up the lamb and wipes his lips, then there's peace. Well, I ain't for that peace at all.

I've always wanted to be thrown into the ocean when I die - to be rowed out to sea and thrown overboard into the Atlantic.

The voice inside your head is not the voice of god. It just sounds like it thinks it is.

What can be said about a man who is interested in nothing but his painting? It's a pity if a man can only interest himself in one thing. But I can't do any thing else. I have only one interest.

One of the biggest differences between liberalism and conservativism these days, is that conservativism isn't what conservativism should be, and liberalism is what liberalism ought not to be.

I'm sorry I didn't feel any better or play any better, but that's what happens at the end of careers.