My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

I don't read all the newspapers.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

I'm happy in retirement.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

Normalness leads to sadness.

The Government is making a fool of itself by attributing all terrorism and acts against the government only to one single patriot

Genuine religion is not so much a matter of feeling as a matter of principle.

Maybe that was the secret of happiness--not expecting any one thing to last forever.

Friends are people who are in your life because you feel good around them and you like them. Friends are the people you choose to be with.

Aristotle wore many rings and expensive clothes. ... Plato found this off-putting and unsuited for a philosopher.

I bleed and breathe Hawks. Even when I played for other teams I felt funny, because I was a Hawk.

Help someone in distress and you lighten your own burden; the very joy of alleviating the sorrow of another is the lessening of one's own.

Until death it is all life.

Breakfast is always the best time for something juicy, sweet and fresh - it just feels like the right way to open the day. There's no right way, though, when it comes to choosing the fruit.