I tend not to argue about things that I don't believe in.

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.

The tragedy of life is what dies inside a man while he lives.

We are never so free as when we own our sacred serfdom...

Look at life all around; everything is growing, everything is moving forward. Therefore I recommend keeping in touch with life and with art.

I thought I did until I looked at some old game films. (When asked if he played college football)

Unless ideas are massaged into reality they evaporate.

In Ireland there’s no such thing as bad weather ~~~ only the wrong clothes. (In the Company of Others)

I don't try to be funny. It's just that I feel the world is a little bit absurd and off-kilter and I'm sort of reporting.

You are the master of your own earthly destiny just as surely as you have the power to control your own thoughts

I think of the Sixties as being every man for himself.

She was trying to get rid of a religious hangover.