There is no doubt about how hard it is to stay on top in any sport, but to do it in an individual sport for the majority of your career, it is not easy.

People know me. I'm not going to produce any cartwheels out there. I'm not going to belong on Comedy Central. I'll always be a tennis player, not a celebrity.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf. I played three rounds in that Tahoe event, and I was drained. Mentally, not physically.

In tennis, you can make a couple of mistakes and still win. Not in golf.

The only person that I have met, that I have ever been in awe of, is Eddie Vedder.

The difference of great players is at a certain point in a match they raise their level of play and maintain it. Lesser players play great for a set, but then less.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

I never wanted to be the great guy or the colorful guy or the interesting guy. I wanted to be the guy who won titles.

I let my racket do the talking. That's what I am all about, really. I just go out and win tennis matches.

You kind of live and die by the serve.

Anybody who has played sports and says they have never choked is lying to you.

Suffering needs time. It cannot survive in the now.

Two demons: one who insists that what is to be inferred by verbal processes must correspond to experience

You are not in the universe

I reject discrimination against Muslim Americans - who are just as patriotic as we are.

A concern with 'public morality' is - if not the last refuge of a scoundrel - the first foray of the fascist.

The moment one gives close attention to any thing, even a blade of grass it becomes a mysterious, awesome, indescribably magnificent world in itself.

Sometimes I can't draw or take a picture of something, though, if the color is a certain way and the only way to see it is to see it in person.

I always kid the president in different circumstances. Mr. President, a country's never going to be more optimistic than the president.

Truth must the guide of those who hold the power; but humility is their sign, the promise that their privileges are in safe hands.

Christian freedom does not mean being free to do as we like; it means being free to do as we ought.