It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

Coming back after the layoff, I wasn't really sure what to expect.

Let me say that the path I did take for a brief period of my life was not of reckless drug use, hurting others, but it was a path of quiet rebellion, of a little experimentation of a darker side of my confusion in a confusing world, lost in the midst of finding my identity.

I was an emotional basket case.

I know there is much mystery, much question to what happened, and I must also say, many lies.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

I feel like I've started a new chapter in my life, and I need to leave the past behind.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Dreams do come true if you keep believing in yourself. Anything is possible.

I feel like Ive started a new chapter in my life and I need to leave the past behind.

Everything's borne out of human experience, of course - rejection, humiliation, poverty, whatever. People aren't born bad, no matter how harsh the circumstances. There is a person in there, and that person is not made of ice.

I know I have a responsibility as a role model to children and I try to fulfill that.

Imagine if all those kings and dukes hadn't commissioned those crazy cathedrals, paintings and music... we'd still be living in sticks and mud. Because none of those things made any economic sense. Human beings' capacity to 'waste time' is a miracle - but that's exactly what art is for.

Authentic atheism is a blank page Gnostic atheism hides a text written in invisible ink. The ebermensch is the recourse of a nonconformist atheism. Nietzsche invents a human consolation for the death of God Gnostic atheism on the other hand proclaims the divinity of man.

I love the walk although my security team weren't too sure to begin with but I was anxious to be able to lead a near normal life. Whilst walking I do get the chance to meet people and keep in touch.

As a physician and a U.S. senator, I have warned since the very beginning about many troubling aspects of Mr. Obama's unprecedented health-insurance mandate. Not only does he believe he can order you to buy insurance, the president also incorrectly equates health insurance coverage with medical care.

I have a room dedicated to music and recording. I go there first thing in the morning and just before I go to bed. And it has a window to my street, so I can watch all the crazies walking by.

You do show after show after show and get them done and on the air. Television devours material. We work a minimum of 12, 14 hours, and often 15, 18 hours a day.

If you can imagine it you can achieve it. If you can dream it, you can become it.

I do find myself at the moment, due to the success of School of Rock, to be on people's radar a little.

Most of our lives aren't that exciting, but the drama is still going on in the small details.

My father is an anchor and my brother is as well.

Christmas is a time when you get homesickeven when youre home.

This is no time for ease and comfort. It is time to dare and endure.

I will be the president of the nation who keeps pledges.

Television is a golden goose that lays scrambled eggs; and it is futile and probably fatal to beat it for not laying caviar. Anyway, more people like scrambled eggs than caviar.

I'm not desperate anymore or feeling weird about myself because I'm not working in this business. I'm older and wiser, and there's a lot more to life.

I always intended to move back to New York when I was first there.

If people are taking pictures of me at Starbucks, it's not the end of the world. It's cool, it's fun, it's exciting.

Diversifying sufficiently among uncorrelated risks can reduce portfolio risk toward zero. But financial engineers should know that's not true of a portfolio of correlated risks.

The success of an organization will depend on the people you surround yourself with.

My parents didn't want me to be a regular in a series. I was a working actor from time to time but they thought was a little too much being a star of a series. They wanted me to have a slightly more normal childhood.

Public influence is the real government of the world.

I am energized by the diverse, talented and energetic culture here at Vivaldi, so I am beyond excited to get started in my new role in developer relations.