B.J. Novak Quotes

When the last point is done, we are humans. Give your opponent a hug and say, ‘great fight,’ and that’s all.

The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.

Love is not a feeling of happiness. Love is a willingness to sacrifice.

... the winner is the one who believes in victory more.

I think luck falls on not just the brave but also the ones who believe they belong there.

Travel is impossible, but daydreaming about travel is easy.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

I know that success does not come at once, it is not a thing achieved overnight. It is the result of many, many, many years of working and trying to achieve goals.

I am the greatest tennis player. The other players are like coins in my pocket that I give to a homeless man.

Granted that I must die, how shall I live?

I had to listen to the classical music because it calms me down, calms my nerves down.

If you love something, let it go. If you don't love something, definitely let it go. Basically, just drop everything, who cares.

I stopped thinking too much about what could happen and relied on my physical and mental strength to play the right shots at the right time.

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Practically every movie that shows the pope or even a bishop as a character, and in much of western literature of the last 300 or 400 years, these are portrayed as awful figures.

Marriage, the family unit, was the "original Department of Health, Education and Welfare."

The most critical threat to our freedom is a failure to appreciate the power of truth.

I don't like to compare years, honestly. I think every year is a different experience, a different challenge. You grow. You evolve as a person and as a player.

To know oneself is to disbelieve utopia.

Our Founders always wondered about how long it would last. The price of liberty is everlasting vigilance. You've got to be on your guard every minute or you will lose it.

Joking around is part of my personality, just who I am.

We really feel happier when things look bleak. Hope is endurance. Hope is holding on and going on and trusting in the Lord.

You're a sovereign as a citizen. If you're not involved in your government, you're not doing your job. In the long run that's very bad for the Republic.

To go into a competition and not strive to win is to be a dishonest competitor.

If Communism goes, I've still got the U.S. House of Representatives.

Don't be afraid of anything. We've seen so much suffering and evil in the 20th century and we got through it. We can go on. God is with us. God will help us. Trust Him.

Our capacity for self-deception has no known limits

I am grateful to life. And also to the people who have brought me here. Without them, I could not be where I am now.

Battered Women: sounds delicious. Doesn’t make it right.

Our political institutions work remarkably well. They are designed to clang against each other. The noise is democracy at work.

I want to win and I feel that pressure, but my career will not be a disaster if I do not win there. It is a dream to fulfill.

It's not always enough to be brave, I realized years later. You have to be brave and contribute something positive, too. Brave on its own is just a party trick.

Tradition lives because young people come along who catch its romance and add new glories to it.

Regret is just perfectionism plus time.

My priority, the most important thing in my life is my family, my wife and my son.

I had a unique privilege to have a good start in life and a chance to develop my talents.

I love football and it's the sport I would really like to play. I've said on national television here that I would really love to play for one of our football clubs when I finished my tennis career.

In my case, I can sincerely say nothing is impossible.

I always felt Jimmy was trapped in Hollywood. He felt it himself. He loved aviation so much and he wanted to be able to do more of that. He somehow just got stuck here.

I didn't want to start relying on what someone else thought was right. It was easier to go away all together.

I don't think you want to give all the answers, but I think every answer you do give should bring up another question, and not all questions should be answered.

Always love your country - but never trust your government!

Nobody remembers how long anything takes; they only remember how good it was in the end.

I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.

Serbian history tells that family is the most important thing and you have to stick with the family.

I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.

I was always opinionated.

The whole new Democratic Party is the old Republican Party. We have a whole bunch of elephants running around in donkey's clothes.

I loved acting, which was never about money, the fame. It was about a search for meaning. It was painful.

I want to help children in Serbia and around the world so they can realize their dreams.