You can't measure success if you have never failed.

You can have a certain arrogance, and I think that's fine, but what you should never lose is the respect for the others.

When you lose a couple of times, it makes you realize how difficult it is to win.

I never look back, I look forward.

As long as I can focus on enjoying what I'm doing, having fun, I know I'll play well.

Age, what is it? It's not a figure that has ever meant anything to me.

I have always been guided by striving to show the best that I could. That is what kept me going in tennis and it is the same now.

There is no relief at it being over. There is the joy of winning it.

My big dream was to work as a photographer for 'National Geographic.'

It doesn't hurt to lose my crown, it hurts to lose.

I don't ever look back. I look forward.

Just the night before, a puma’s howl had set a chill at my spine and, man, life didn’t get any richer than that.

Leadership is something you earn, something you're chosen for. You can't come in yelling, 'I'm your leader!' If it happens, it's because the other guys respect you.

It is by imitation, far more than by precept, that we learn everything; and what we learn thus, we acquire not only more effectually, but more pleasantly.

It is only by knowing how little life has in store for us that we are able to look on the bright side and avoid disappointment.

My expectations of other people, I double them on myself.

Duke Ellington was famous for hs very original harmonic patterns.

we came to realize that a civilization which rode roughshod over the way of life of other peoples was incorporating evil in its own way of life.

Tempus edax rerum. Time that devours all things.

No matter what medium I'm using, or what subject I'm painting, I do retain a fairly set approach to painting.

At the end of the day everybody lost. We almost crippled our industry. It was very disappointing what happened.