If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

It's better to have done because then you know what the player is going through and you understand the pressure, but then on the other hand I know a lot of people that were good players but not good coaches, and vice versa.

You should just enjoy it, but as soon as you decide that it is going to be your career, no matter whether you want to be a doctor or an architect or anything else, you need to work 5 hours a day.

If you lived the doubles, as I did, which was very stressful, you are sitting down in a chair experiencing a match without being able to hold a racquet in your hands.

You can be a little lonely because it's an individual sport.

I think our strength is this strong relationship we have all together.

I had a coach that was not a great player, but he taught with kids and juniors so that by the time he was 50 he was great. He helped me make the top 5 in the world and yet he wasn't a great player himself.

I retired because I had a knee injury, my cartilage was wearing out, it was painful and I couldn't put in the four hours of practice each day that I needed to.

To be a professional tennis player you need to put in these sort of hours.

But I still serve pretty big and that's one of my biggest weapons, so if my shoulder holds up and I can count on it, I can win a few matches and then you never know how the other guys are going to react to the fatigue and the length of the matches.

Anything is possible as long as you have the passion.

When you are very little tennis should be fun, it should be a game.

There are some guys you have problems beating because of their style - I always had difficulties with guys like Michael Chang and Andre Agassi because their returns were so good and they played so well in defence.

Suddenly in the end when it's over, you feel a big weight on your shoulders. That's the role of the captain. Unfortunately, it's sometimes like that in sport.

If you win, fine, if you don't, you try again next year.

When we want to reach a dream for the second time, you want it to come true, when you try so hard, you are so close to achieving it, it makes things very difficult to live with afterwards.

I think each player and myself live things differently because I have no physical effort to make.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

More than specific memories of achievements, for me I remember the feeling you get when you were just at your very best - when you felt like you were floating across the court and could put the ball wherever you wanted.

It's a tough world out there and all the guys are fighting hard and the competition is really tough.

When I'm not working, I dress like a surfer. I look like I'm going to come into your house and clean your pool.

Play is the production of fun entertainment is the consumption of fun.

If I can help a kid discover a liking, or even a passion for music in their life, then that's a wonderful thing.

I started in theater; I did theater in New York for 14 years before I even thought about doing movies - I never thought about being in a film; it just never occurred to me.

It's been too many years since I've played live as myself as opposed to in a fake band for a film.

Faith is the quiet cousin of courage.

Whenever you're writing something that's reflective, you have to put yourself through some sort of ordeal just to understand the way you're feeling.

I like to carry a concealer palette that has a green, a yellow, and a tan color. I like to carry the green one because when I have a pimple, it's good to use that to contrast the red. Then you put the yellow over it, and it helps it disappear.

I was excited to come to Australia to shoot for Seafolly because I've been wanting to visit since I was young. There wasn't much time to explore because we were so busy, which happens often during shoots. We had to take a boat to the Whitsunday Islands every day to get to the locations, which was a great way to start the day.

People make me key chains... someone attached a Dauntless symbol to a silver pen. That one is what I use to sign books. I use that a lot. I like to keep them around because they remind me that people are waiting for these books and that they really love them. It gives me motivation in those times when I'm not feeling very motivated.

The Dharma Path is to keep walking forward. But the true Dharma has no going forward no going backward and no standing still.

Goals help you overcome short term problems.

I appreciate all of the attention I get in my career. I am a loner and live a rather secluded life so sometimes I do get overwhelmed, but I am always very appreciative of everything, and honored.

Being a public servant, this is a serious job, not like a boxer, you're entertaining people.

A strong mentor can help a young woman find and advance in the career of her dreams that otherwise may have seemed impossible.

I think a lot of people, including me, clammed up when a civilian asked about battle, about war. It was fashionable. One of the most impressive ways to tell your war story is to refuse to tell it, you know. Civilians would then have to imagine all kinds of deeds of derring-do.

I think that's the ultimate sign of a teammate and respect is that they compete against one another so hard at practice that here's a chance to share some knowledge inside. It takes some humility to do that.

I've been funny my whole life. This is a gift God gave me.

We could see the Teamsters coming in from New Jersey, the AFL-CIO from Chicago. You could see all of the people being bused in.

According to this view, democracy is a product of western culture, and it cannot be applied to the Middle East which has a different cultural, religious, sociological and historical background.

My mom was very religious. She might have let me buy records, but I assumed that she wouldn't.

Too often you see someone fall, break a rib, go in to the doctor and discover a tumor.

I don't do the whole, 'Put my name on it, make me famous' thing.

The cooperation of NASCAR - or any other system, it turns out - persists only when everyone believes he has the opportunity to win.