Having a normal knee would make life a lot easier.

I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

It's not the end of the world to lose.

In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

I'll be supporting anyone but England.

I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

Only in the darkness can you see the stars.

Whenever a man has cast a longing eye on offices, a rottenness begins in his conduct.

I want us to be a connected team-on and off the field.

In literature as in ethics, there is danger, as well as glory, in being subtle. Aristocracy isolates us.

What surprises me about getting older is that I remain so young.

I don't like being stuck in one situation, day to day.

I taught high school English for 24 years. I always teach my students to appreciate the beauty of language and to write poetically.

When you get negative people out of your life, negative things stop happening to you.

A tree fell on Greg Abbott - he sued and got millions.

The actual Irish weather report is really a recording made in 1922, which no one has had occasion to change. "Scattered showers, periods of sunshine."