When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.

Right now I have more confidence in myself. I grew up.

This trophy is so special in the world of tennis and it feels great.

Whether it's in the right way or sometimes the wrong way, you learn about life and its lessons.

Yes, I have had difficult times on court and at certain tournaments but you need to forget about it and go forward because that's the way it works in our world.

When I finished the juniors I felt, perhaps for about a year and a half, that everything was going to be the same and that I would be able to go out there and win any match. But it wasn't the case. I struggled.

I think you always have, you know, new players. Every year you see new faces, juniors coming into the seniors. I was one of them at the time long time ago now.

I definitely wanted this win today and I don't want anybody to talk about my nerves anymore.

When you start off a new tournament, you want to do well.

I think I have handled things pretty well last year and this. What I have to do now is try do it even better.

Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.

It took me time to adjust and to realise it was not going to happen like it did in the juniors.

Well, I guess I needed this tough first round to really put me into that tournament, to really erase what happened at Indian Wells, which is now the case, you know.

The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.

People have used my views for purposes which are very different from mine.

The wind always seems to blow against catchers when they are running.

People say this all the time and everyone, like, nods their head and is like, 'Oh yeah, totally,' but no one ever does it, including myself. I can do better at it, is just drinking a lot of water, like a gallon and a half, two gallons a day, like, straight water all day.

In meeting the challenges of organic growth, BlackRock has the advantage of having an executive team greatly respected for what it has accomplished.

It's hard to pin down what it means to be an evangelical today. It's been diluted quite a bit. It is a powerful voting bloc, no question, but they're liberal as well as conservative - and they're made of Latinos, blacks, whites.

In a world where it is so easy to neglect, deny, corrupt and suppress the truth, the scientist may find his discipline severe. For him, truth is so seldom the sudden light that shows new order and beauty; more often, truth is the uncharted rock that sinks his ship in the dark.

A bespoke shirt is one of the true luxuries that you can acquire. There's nothing better than a fitted shirt. Once you've picked up your first one, you'll never stop buying them - providing you can pay for it.

Prepare for death, if here at night you roam, and sign your will before you sup from home.

You're off to great places. Today is your day. Your mountain is waiting, so get on your way.

In 1936, when I was born in the small Silesian village of Waltersdorf in the county of Sprottau in the then-eastern part of Germany, now part of Poland, the fine structure of the cell was still an enigma.

But you've got to have money for comfort, which obviously doesn't matter as much when you're young, but even so. I always like to bloody eat well and be warm. Have a drink when I want it.

I think that as you get older, you mellow out a lot more. Having been through the ups and downs in life, I feel more qualified to play the blues.

The secret of contentment is knowing how to enjoy what you have and to be able to lose all desire for things beyond your reach.

A lot of my ideas for books come from newspaper articles. But I don't like to be actively looking for ideas.

There's accountability in the mutual fund industry. And they've been tremendous engines of wealth for people and they're going to continue to be so.

In a film called 'Senna,' the clue is in the title, and we have a Brazilian badge on our sleeve as we were making it. We were making it from Senna's point of view, with Senna narrating it.

Snakes are sick.

People that are conceited of their own merit take pride in being unfortunate, that themselves and others may think them considerable enough to be the envy and the mark of fortune.

You've got to realize that any lady on a soap is devoting her life to it, 24/7.

Gender equality is more than a goal in itself. It is a precondition for meeting the challenge of reducing poverty, promoting sustainable development and building good governance.

I never write in a linear way. And I tell students not to. You can only know so much about a book when you first start.

The enemies of freedom will not prevail.

My nine-year-old was trying to read my spiel. When she tried to pronounce the word 'pharmaceutical,' it was frightening. She would love to argue in the Supreme Court one day. My son asked me, 'Mommy, why do you have to have so many arguments? Why can't you have agreements?'

To the best of our knowledge, our Sun is the only star proven to grow vegetables.