When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

But whatever happens, when you leave London you feel like a winner because it's a great venue and it's so nice to be there with all the guys.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

All punishment is mischief. All punishment in itself is evil.

A good goal is like a strenuous exercise-it makes you stretch.

The liberties of our country, the freedom of our civil constitution, are worth defending against all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks.

I like to keep most of my bats. I think I have about 250 bats, including my first - which cost Rs 2000 - a gift from my dad in 1998, when I moved to the hostel.

I think that as you learn more about writing you learn to be direct.

Every great idea exerts, on first appearing, a tyrannical influence: Hence, the advantages it brings are turned all too soon into disadvantages.

Secularism must be applied everywhere, because that is how everyone will be able to live in peace with each other.

With any method of attaining great wealth, there is a price, and price is not always measured in money

I tell my friends married life is boring, but that's just a fun thing to say to make single people feel better.

I'm a participant in the doctrine of constructive ambiguity.