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

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.

Success is walking out of here with the title, and anything less is not good enough in my book.

Ambition: it is the last infirmity of noble minds.

Day to day is a process. Dream it, plan it, do it, and make it happen! You're what you act!

You are wonderful.You are beautiful.

Sometimes you have to stop and ask yourself who’s really stupid, the guys who stop and pick you up, or you, for being out here in the first place?" - excerpt from: freefalling

Whenever the sun is shining, I feel obligated to play outside!

He was one of those men whose constitutional inability to make small talk forfeits all one's sympathy and makes one think that social grace is sometimes a moral duty.

Sorrow is a fruit God does not allow it to grow on a branch that is too weak to bear it.

I make sure the foods I eat will benefit the appearance of my hair, skin and nails.

As if there were safety in stupidity alone

In our families we learn to love and to recognise the dignity of all, especially of the elderly