You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

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.

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

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.

Tell yourself you’re dead, the way Matt does, so the past can’t hurt you.

My mother said the cure for thinking too much about yourself was helping somebody who was worse off than you.

Time is what we want most but... what we use worst.

My teenage years were exactly what they were supposed to be. Everybody has their own path. It's laid out for you. It's just up to you to walk it.

There are strong people who aren't able to climb. It's about reading the rock, knowing how to position your body and having the tenacity to not let go.

That was one of the reasons I became a writer - I never really had that many friends. I would read a lot, and listen to music. And that was my life.

I'm not done with love, but I refuse to settle.

A stroke of a man knocking a thistle top with a walking stick

I'm in favor of approaching both the night and the day with intention.

There are not that many roles in comedies that are completely driven by a young actress.