I am not the most courageous guy in the world outside of the court.

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.

We all have dreams. But in order to make dreams come into reality, it takes an awful lot of determination, dedication, self-discipline, and effort. Jesse Owens

Life without liberty is like a body without spirit.

With highly civilised nations continued progress depends in a subordinate degree on natural selection; for such nations do not supplant and exterminate one another as do savage tribes.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

We no longer dare to believe in beauty and we make of it a mere appearance in order the more easily to dispose of it.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

It's just not easy enough to say that I pray and God will accomplish.

When your parent is a public idol, you never really have a chance to lay that parent to rest.

God wants us to respond in wholehearted love because it is who He is and who He created us to be.

Their objective is to get to the outskirts of Baghdad. So be it.