It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.

When you're young, you don't know what you don't know, so it's easier to get into that magical thing.

The downside isn't really injury, fear of injury or the process of fighting back from injury. The downside, the very worst thing in the world, is surgery.

You do it for the highs, when you're totally engrossed and everything's flowing and whatever you want, you get. It's like magic. That's why you play the game. That's what it's for. That's why you work.

You can't really describe how difficult it is to deal with. It is any athlete's worst nightmare to be accused of cheating by taking drugs. It really is very difficult to put into words how it makes you feel.

It's not a break until you hold your serve.

The only way to get back the confidence is to play and win matches. You can practise as much as you like, but you need confidence that comes from playing and winning matches.

I don't read all the newspapers.

I'm happy in retirement.

I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U.S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.

If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.

It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work.' That sums it up for me.

My biggest problem will be lack of match toughness but I am a positive, optimistic person.

What doesn't kill you only makes you stronger.

You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.

I have specific playlists for arrivals in different cities. Tokyo skews new wave, Paris more jazz, and New York is Top 40.

The tears of the world are a constant quality. For each one who begins to weep somewhere else another stops. The same is true of the laugh.

I grew up with people staring at me because I was such a tall, awkward girl.

The world is a dysfunctional place in so many ways. It is unstable. So even though that chaos can be reflected in our own homes, I suppose we have to fight that by creating our own versions of safety, which can also turn into ignoring the state of the world.

I'd just like to be good at sports. I'm extremely competitive with absolutely nothing to back it up.

We are actually a very rich country with a lot of resources and the ability to do almost whatever we want. We could eliminate poverty in America by spending a fraction of what we spend on defense.

No religion makes more use of color than Hinduism with its blue skinned gods and peony lipped goddesses and even the spring festival of Holi is focused on color Boys squirt arcs of dyed water on passersby or dump powder all violently hued on their marks.

I myself don't know what makes my books work. I enter a bookstore and I'm frankly overwhelmed by the number of books in most of them, and I know people are buying mine.

We are a generation of settlers, and without the steel helmet and gun barrel, we shall not be able to plant a tree or build a house.

I would hole up in my bedroom growing up and teach myself guitar.

There used to be a strong belief that if you wanted to know what was really going on in a country, the best thing to do was to go there and ask a taxi driver.

As an international sportsman, I am very lucky to be supported by people all over the world, many of who treat me as one of their own, no matter what their nationality, or indeed mine. This is the way sport should be.

How many guitars do I have? I don't know. I don't know! But I think the answer to it is, more than I can play at any one point in time. Even though I do have double necks, so I can try and play more than at one time!

You have to knock doors, make calls, and build a relationship with voters long before Election Day.

To be an actor, a true actor, you have to be brokenhearted.

When on an emotional roller-coaster, take the leap of faith...

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

Japanese chefs believe our soul goes into our knives once we start using them. You wouldnt put your soul in a dishwasher

Love or not, I wouldn't subject a wife to the road. It's punishment.

I will never forget that it is the people who speak directly through the constitution they have adopted.

I think the most interesting parts of human experience might be the sparks that come from that sort of chipping flint of cultures rubbing against each other. And living on the border between Mexico and the U.S. for so many years gave me a lot of insight into that.

Bluegrass is wonderful music. I'm glad I originated it.

Waves are the voices of tides. Tides are life.

I've always looked upon the Ducks as caricature human beings. Perhaps I've been years writing in that middle world that J.R.R. Tolkien describes, and never knew it.