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.

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.

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.

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

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.

A positive attitude can take you to a lot of great places that a professional makeup can't. There is more to life than your physical appearance.

She walks in beauty Like the night of cloudless climes and starry skies And all that's best of dark and bright Meet in her aspect and her eyes.

Happiness serves hardly any other purpose than to make unhappiness possible.

My every birthday wish was, 'I want to someday be on TV.'

Scheme not to make what's Another's your own; Be not a Dog for the sake of a Bone.

The dog, on the other hand, has few or no ideas because his brain acts in coarse fashion and because there are few connections with each single process.

Israel is a democratic state with an independent judiciary, a free press and a diverse population of many cultures, religions and creeds.

We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.

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I don't think I was considered to be a cabaret singer because I didn't have patter that was written.