Many say that (Pete) Sampras is the greatest player. But I say with all due respect to the rest, that he (Roger Federer) is the most complete player in the world so far.

Everybody is smarter from outside of the court.

It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.

If you're losing, just be a man; be a man and lose as a man.

Everything is possible in this life.

It's a pity that the tennis is really going down the drain. Every year it's getting worse and worse and worse. There has to be a radical change, and I hope it will be really soon.

We live because of the dreams.

My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.

I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.

I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.

Today I break racquets for tomorrow we die.

When I started the Imagination Library in my hometown, I never dreamed that one day we would be helping Scottish kids.

The interesting thing about the African-American experience in this country is that we are sort of a mongrel of people. I mean we're all kind of mixed up.

Farid had brought an invisible guest with him. Fear.

Determination, however, can take the place of patience, if earnestly applied.

What are all political and social institutions, but always a religion, which in realizing itself, becomes incarnate in the world?

Ten times must you laugh during the day, and be cheerful; otherwise your stomach, the father of affliction, will disturb you in the night.

Democracy is acceptable to neo-liberals only in so far as it does not contradict the free market.

The moment you think of a joke is the best moment.

Democracy is a government where you can say what you think even if you don't think. Politicians are the same all over. They promise to build a bridge where there is no river.

Fame nowadays is little else but notoriety.