Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

No matter how hard you try, after the Day there will always be a Night...

Nobody ever forgets their first night in the bush. It's among the precious, meagre handful of life firsts that remain indelible.

Something pure to burn away the darkness that hides inside my mind

I would have been very happy just cruising around and enjoying the unexpected. I've never been ambitious.

Other people are like a mirror which reflects back on us the kind of image we cast.

There has been studies looking at like musical talent and it shows that there is actually a really large genetic component involved.

After about 25 fights you don't always have to keep going to the bathroom before the fight.

We have everything we need, in fact, except the most important thing of all — time to think and the habit of thought.

Well, Dwight was born to be No. 2 and I don't think he would know what to do as a leader. But he loves following. He would have made a great fascist.

School kids don't know the world is a million times bigger than school's version of it.