The only humility that is really ours is not that which we try to show before God in prayer, but that which we carry with us in our daily conduct.

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.

Maybe I'd see how you could be so certain that we had no chance...at all.

Not to fear a person with power--to profess, instead, one's love--is to deny that that person has power.

I think that the Democrats can be successful nationally in the future if we are able to capture some of the complexity of people's lives right now.

Focus group research has created a composite No-Man who resembles no-one anyone has ever met.

For a lot of people, if they're lucky, it begins with somebody who recognizes something in them.

How you see where you are always depends on where you've been.

At the bottom of all patriotism there is war: that is why I am no patriot.

On every film, the clothes are half the battle in creating the character. I have a great deal of opinion about how my people are presented. We show a great deal by what we put on our bodies.

I will insist on a military so powerful no one would ever think of challenging it.

Underneath the stress is fear, and the biggest is our own personal fear of failure.