For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.

Losing is not my enemy..fear of losing is my enemy.

The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.

If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.

I play each point like my life depends on it.

I learned during all my career to enjoy suffering.

You have to accept both losing and winning well. I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost.

I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.

Anyone could become a star, but everyone must be a human being.

I always work with a goal - and the goal is to improve as a player and a person. That, finally, is the most important thing of all.

Timidity is the silent acceptance of bondage

God knows what possessed me, but having that science book in my hand propelled me to immediate action. So I hit her with it.

I think it's somebody else's job to decide what my image is.

It was mostly an aura about him (Gene Kelly). For me he was Hollywood. The way I'd imagined it as a child.

Amongst the sons of men how few are known Who dare be just to merit not their own.

We know where you are. We know where you've been. We can more or less know what you're thinking about.

God is bigger than every issue you will ever have to face, and you can do whatever you need to do through Christ who strengthens you.

Despair is a free man--hope is a slave.

back from when they watched black and white TV and hunted dinosaurs.

There is no connection between imperialism and democracy. I mean when we ran an Empire which we did when I was born, there was no democracy anywhere.