I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.

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.

Writing is the delicate, difficult, and dangerous means of succeeding in avowing the unavowable.

A fool with a heart and no sense is just as unhappy as a fool with sense and no heart.

I used to think that drinking would help my shyness, but all it did was exaggerate all the negative qualities.

How sad, how strange, we make companions out of air and hurt them, so they will defy us, completing creation.

Memories have to be our most painful blessing.

Words have a longer life than deeds.

Cars are necessary, but take a more humble one. Think of how many children die of hunger and dedicate the savings to them.

Your ecstasy is a movement towards the height and your meditation is a movement towards the depth. And once you have both, your life becomes a celebration.

Morning ... 'tis Nature's gayest hour!

We just have to have visibility. We have to have acknowledgement. We have to have accountability to how we treat one another.