If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match. However down I am, I fight until the last ball. My list of matches shows that I have turned a great many so-called irretrievable defeats into victories.

It's not easy to part with the trophies. However, I do need to have some long-term financial security for those close to me.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

As tennis players, we work and we sacrifice many things. To lose, that's not a happy thing - I mean sure, I was disappointed. You have to come back strong. But to win the last point in a grand slam tournament, that's the most beautiful and most satisfying feeling you can get as a tennis player. It's worth it.

Basically I started playing double handed on both my forehand and backhand side because my first racket was very heavy.

I enjoy fashion.

I had a great tennis career. I have no regrets. But to find peace with yourself, and to finally be with your family - I'm probably the happiest guy in the world.

I just hated to lose.

I play tennis five hours a week, from Monday to Friday, for one hour every day. I like to be fit. If I can't exercise, I feel bad - I need to sweat and run to feel like I'm in good shape.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

I was fascinated by a compelling character embroiled in a controversial topic that told the story from a different point of view.

I'm amazed that years after I stopped playing tennis, people still recognize me in restaurants and ask for my autograph.

I'm an actor who plays an intriguing character, not a political pundit.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

Roger Federer is stylish.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

You never know how long Federer is going to play, but in my opinion he has at least one or two more grand slams to win. It depends how long he stays motivated. For me, he is the greatest player to ever play the game.

Bambi has a profound effect on children because it's about losing your mother.

About the only time losing is more fun than winning is when you're fighting temptation.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

I love making people laugh. It's an addiction and it's probably dysfunctional, but I am addicted to it and there's no greater pleasure for me than sitting in a theater and feeling a lot of people losing control of themselves.

There is no winning or losing, but rather the value is in the experience of imagining yourself as a character in whatever genre you're involved in, whether it's a fantasy game, the Wild West, secret agenst or whatever else. You get to sort of vicariously experience those things.

Jim played - he had a great stretch in the middle of the round there, and Chad made that long putt on 16. Almost got that match. We ended up losing, but we almost won it, too.

The mind is never satisfied with the objects immediately before it, but is always breaking away from the present moment, and losing itself in schemes of future felicity... The natural flights of the human mind are not from pleasure to pleasure, but from hope to hope.

Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover.

It's actually not unlike Google at that stage of development. They had an up-and-running site. It wasn't losing very much money, it wasn't making very much money, but it was growing.

The United States and Arizona are both losing jobs to offshore locations.

So we are now still dependent on foreign oil, have a problem with global warming, and are losing jobs rapidly to the Japanese in fuel-efficient vehicles as a result of that very shortsighted progress.

One of the symptoms of a losing streak is a turnover of top executives. It's a revolving door.

All through school, I was losing hundreds of pounds in school, so that's a journey - that's an old journey. I'm tired of that. I know that road.

Southerners can never resist a losing cause.

We are losing the democracy that we're trying to sell in the Mideast and everywhere else right here in our own nation.

The secret of genius is to carry the spirit of the child into old age, which mean never losing your enthusiasm.

There were some things that I found I really enjoyed singing about; like, on the title track, there's this film-noir character of a woman who's sort of losing it in a room.

Play difficult and interesting things. If you play boring things, you risk losing your appetite. Saxophone can be tedious with too much of the same.

I don't know how to put it, but yet you know we have so many people who the way they look at life, the way they work depends on what happens, us winning or losing. It's kind of crazy. So, I kind of got caught up in that, I'm gonna try to stay away from that.

If you can accept losing, you can't win.

Losing faith in your own singularity is the start of wisdom, I suppose; also the first announcement of death.

Losing feels worse than winning feels good.

With The Key, it was, I had gone through a divorce and losing my father, and just kinda really reminiscing about how much I loved the traditional side of country music, so I made a record that was really traditional from start to finish.

If you're losing your soul and you know it, then you've still got a soul left to lose.

As the U.S. trade deficit, and the portion of that deficit attributed to China, continue to grow, our own economy is at risk of losing its reputation as a leader in world trade.

We won the war, but we are losing the occupation and reconstruction of Iraq. It is past time for a new approach, one that relies on accountability, responsibility, and phasing down the scope of our military commitment.

Yet our small business owners across the country are unfairly losing potential interest income on a daily basis until the Business Checking Freedom Act becomes law.

Only when you are lost can love find itself in you without losing its way.

Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing.