I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

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.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

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

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

Thinking is mind over matter.

Belief and hope, it seemed were not the same thing, ....

Humiliation is humiliation only when you choose to suffer.

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.

I believe in a different kind of magic. The kind we make between each other.

After September 11, when the United States took action to overthrow the Taliban, our interests and Iran's aligned, and we were able to coordinate quietly but effectively.

I'm inspired by everything that I encounter, from the environment to people to other songs, movies and artists.

the poet like an acrobat climbs on rime to a high wire of his own making.

Our vocal harmonies started to feel like a cop-out: all group-singing, all the time.

Copy, not from your industry, from others. You have to go where there is no competition.