You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

You can't slow the game here. It's grass, it's always going to be fast.

Winning Wimbledon was a great feeling and it is still a great feeling. It has given me so much confidence.

It's fun to be there with the guys, to practice with them, arrange the balls, do this, do that, but when you play you can get some of this nervousness out of your system.

I think I owe it to myself and my fans in Britain to play one more Wimbledon.

As soon as I step on the court I just try to play tennis and don't find excuses. You know, I just lost because I lost, not because my arm was sore.

It's easier when you play. You get your emotion out. You scream. You yell. You do whatever you want. You play. But it's tough to sit.

Although we didn't have much when I was growing up in Split, Croatia, my parents always tried to ensure that my sister and I had the things we needed, and it was enough for us.

At her birthday, my seven-year-old daughter will say that she wants these big cakes and certain expensive toys as presents, and I can't say no to her. It would just break my heart. But when I was little, for birthdays we just played outside and we were happy if we got any cake.

I must be the only player in the world who ever injured himself for a tournament by stepping on a shell on the beach. I don't know what I'm going to do.

If you are given a lot of money without having to work for it, you won't appreciate it as much as if you made it yourself.

My sporting hero was Drazen Petrovic, the NBA basketball player, who was killed in a car accident in 1993. He was a good friend, an unbelievable player, and I dedicated my Wimbledon win to him.

Since retiring I have spent a lot of time with my family, on my boat, and playing football.

The best book I read this year was 'The Da Vinci Code.'

There are not many Irish people playing tennis!

While I didn't have everything that I wanted, I was still a happy kid.

Marriage helps young couples to raise themselves towards God. The bond of marriage unites two souls so firmly that though they are physically two separate entities, their souls are merged into one harmonious whole.

My favorite commercial I did was my Verizon campaign, which I filmed a series of three commercials. My favorite movie I have done was 'House Under Siege' because it was my very first movie at 5 years old. My favorite TV show I have filmed was 'The Night Shift,' which is one of my favorite shows.

To rule is easy, to govern difficult.

One of the first times I came to New York was for a modeling and talent competition, IMTA, which I won. I came with a group, like a modeling school from Fresno.

You can only kill disappointment with a new try.

O love they die in yon rich sky They faint on hill or field or river Our echoes roll from soul to soul And grow for ever and for ever.

Tanks come in two forms: the dangerous, deadly kind and the "liberating" kind.

No matter how much you like your local school teacher, he or she is a government agent.

If an apprentice does not hear what a master hears, is then that quality not present in the music? Yes and no. In the world in which the apprentice lives no.

My husband and I were born three weeks apart, and our plan had always been to throw a joint party for our 40th birthdays.

It has always been more expensive for the poor to borrow money. We see this in everything from mortgage rates to credit cards.

Cliched characters are cliches because they're people being described by people who are on the outside. If you take two sentences from anybody and reduce them to just that, that's what you're going to get.

There are popular celebrities, there are unpopular celebrities and then there are the walking dead. You know the walking dead when you see them: they look like Mel Gibson, still striving for drunken charm in an L.A. County mug shot, after getting picked up on a DWI charge that included anti-semitic slurs directed at the police.

I relate to Nora's transformation in Henrik Ibsen's 'A Doll's House,' and I also relate to both sisters' journeys in John Madden's film 'Proof.'

Konosuke Matsushita was a visionary entrepreneur. He started working very young as a teenager, and he eventually created Panasonic to become a truly global company.

I don't look for bliss, just contentment.

I can say I'd honestly rather be happy than have 30 to 40 songs that I've written about these thrilling, exciting, horrible, unhappy times.

With every word we utter, with every action we take, we know our kids are watching us. We as parents are their most important role models.

In America, black urban teenagers have long been lacking in inclusion. In France, there is a comparable lack of inclusion among North Africans. In much of Europe, there has been little attempt to include the Roma.

After I saw the first thing I ever did, I got a migraine.

Laughter is the corrective force which prevents us from becoming cranks.

I think everyone has their own style in journalism. Look, I'm a girl from the South! Sometimes I laugh. Someone can pejoratively call it giggling. But if you look at the body of my work, I ask lots of hard questions and break a lot of hard news.

In statesmanship get formalities right never mind about the moralities.

A good worker knows how to be seen, yet remain invisible. They achieved invisibility by never showing up how good they are. But some people hate it & jealousy is evident.