You know my dad pushed me to believe that I was going to be the best. I just never thought of life without tennis, even looking forward.

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

All the good stuff is on the other side of tired.

Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.

Nothing can substitute for just plain hard work

I feel old when I see mousse in my opponent's hair.

Success doesn't always come in the form of a trophy. Keep striving for success.

If I've learned nothing else, it's that time and practice equal achievement.

The great part about tennis is you can't run out the clock.... As long as we were still playing, I had a chance.

What you feel doesn’t matter in the end; it’s what you do that makes you brave.

No one can surely know what knowledge is without the presence of truth.

I am a Freedom Seeker, willing and able to choose my own path.

The first duty of a lecturer- to hand you after an hour's discourse a nugget of pure truth to wrap up between the pages of your notebooks and keep on the mantelpiece for ever.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

I used to go to these old tent revivals and listen to the gospel singers. If you think rock and roll is energetic, it pales in comparison to a Pentecostal tent revival.

Diligence increaseth the fruit of toil. A dilatory man wrestles with losses.

Hope is what sits by the window and waits for one more dawn, despite the fact that there isn't an ounce of proof in tonight's black, black sky that it can possible come.

There will be people who hate everything you do. And some people will really love it. But that's not really different from the people who really hate it.

People love to be nice, but you must give them the chance.

You have an always-expanding, omnipresent surveillance state that's constantly chipping away at the liberties and freedoms of law-abiding Americans.