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

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 love Aretha Franklin, Edith Piaf, Blondie.

They're only truly great who are truly good.

The curse of the sun and the moon is fake. It doesnt exist.

Be careful of words they can be both daisies and bruises.

I don't know how much the economy has changed since Jonathan Swift's 'A Modest Proposal.'

I would like to have a more social life than I have.

About 100 firefighters a year die in the line of duty in the U.S. Heart attacks on the job and vehicle accidents on the way to the fires account for about half. The other half are traumatic deaths while fighting fires.

As for gun control advocates, I have no hope whatever that any facts whatever will make the slightest dent in their thinking - or lack of thinking.

I think comedians have a function in society, which is to make fun of our icons.

We must reinvent a future free of blinders so that we can choose from real options.

I love using my imagination. I love writing about animals.

Only recently have I realized that being different is not something you want to hide or squelch or suppress.

I think I am naturally attracted to things that are a little bit out of this world.

The modern rule is that every woman should be her own chaperone.

Government shouldn't tell you whom to marry.

Modelling is a silly, crazy business.

I really don't know what I'm doing... I don't. It's terrible. I go in there and I learn how to be like the character and do the best I can, and that's all I really do.

More often than not, real life is so rich, complex and unpredictable that it would seem completely implausible in the pages of a novel.

Hope is what makes us strong. It is why we are here. It is what we fight with when all else is lost.

Hip hop is ever changing but youll always have the pack. And youll always have those people who are separated from the pack.

Spirituality does two things for you. One, you are forced to become more selfless, two, you trust to providence. The opposite of a spiritual man is a materialist. If I was a materialist I would be making lots of money doing endorsements, doing cricket commentary. I have no interest in that.

The perils of duck hunting are great - especially for the duck.

What we need is to understand that women won't often apply for a job until they're almost 95% qualified. So they tick the box and say, 'If I can't do it all, I can't be qualified.' Men look at the same job, and as long as they get to about 60%, they'll apply.

The only sport I'm not interested in is horse racing. That's because I don't know the horses personally.