I feel like I have as good a shot as anybody out there and I have gotten close in the past, so why not have the attitude that I can come out and play great tennis and maybe even win this tournament.

As long as there's pasta and Chinese food in the world, I'm okay.

All of the Spaniards are really talented. I don't know what they eat.

You can work really hard, but if you're not training in the right way you're not going to improve and get to the level that you want to.

If you quit once, it's so much easier to quit the second, third, fourth time.

When you give your best, that's all you can ask of yourself, all that people can ask of you and all that god desires from you. No matter what the result, walk with your head held high.

I see tendencies, I see body language.

I was always really strict on myself about doing everything possible to prepare for competition.

Hard work is the only way to go. Strive to be the best you can be and remember that when you try your best, you can't ask any more from yourself, and people can't ask any more from you.

I am actually nondenominational.

I am just trying to get biblically stronger.

Of all silences I had encountered this was the gravest and most inevitable: not the silence of secrets, but of knowing.

Saturdays and Sundays, America in the year 2009 does not in some ways differ significantly from the country that existed almost 50 years ago. This is truly sad.

I found leaving Manchester United very, very hard.

Almsgiving tends to perpetuate poverty; aid does away with it once and for all

In every walk of life each man puts on a personality and outward appearance so as to look what he wants to be thought; in fact you might say that society is entirely made up of assumed personalities.

I have said publicly no option should be off the table, but I would certainly take nuclear weapons off the table.

Men don't fall in love with me - only young ones.

Rarely in my 45 years as a civil rights lawyer have I been so angry about an injustice as I am about what happened to Billy Ray Johnson

That's the beauty of this great sport (track), though-it's such a fine line between success or not, which makes the sweet moments that much more worth savoring.

I brought a mirror to Lovers' Lane. I told everybody I'm Narcissus.