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

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.

Like the phoenix, socialism is reborn from every pile of ashes left day in, day out, by burnt-out human dreams and charred hopes.

Reconciliation is more beautiful than victory.

I mean, I grew up riding. I can't ever remember not being able to ride or rope and all that stuff. It was part of my life growing up, so it was fun for me.

To be champion requires more than simply being a strong player one has to be a strong human being as well.

Ever since I was 2 or 3, I loved to perform for people. I would walk up to another table in a restaurant and crack a joke, sing a song, do a dance, or something entertaining, and the 'audience' would almost always smile and laugh.

I do everything I can to be the best actor I can be, the best musician I can be. I try to take risks; I try not to let fear run my life.

In character, in manner, in style, in all things, the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Nobody would be killed on the roads if the speed limit were 10 miles an hour.

People aren't always themselves. They're always holding back something.

I did not know many of the details relevant to the Iran and contra initiatives.

I do want to keep the Wedgewood Collection in place, intact, and open to the public. Selling it off would be a real tragedy.

It is courage, courage, courage, that raises the blood of life to crimson splendor. Live bravely and present a brave front to adversity.

A good script and a good brief from the director is enough to let me know what is expected of me.

True joy is independence of circumstances - Choose to rejoice!

I've had to write a column an hour after I've come back from a funeral. A deadline is a deadline, I mean, that was just what my job was.

Healing requires from us to stop struggling but to enjoy life more and endure it less.

After I got married, the first child born to us was mentally handicapped.

There are some people so addicted to exaggeration that they can't tell the truth without lying.

No matter where your lot may be cast, no power on earth can keep you from making a man of yourself, a superb character, a masterpiece.

The only way to be true to our American tradition is to maintain absolute governmental neutrality regarding religious beliefs and practices.

They're not posing as being Jesus Christ all the time.

Liberty cannot be preserved without general knowledge among the people.

I'm ready to do something with Lady Gaga or Andrea Bocelli. I'm really grateful that nothing is out of the realm of possibility.

The right shoe can make everything different.