My dad is a big extrovert - he's a doctor - but he always loved [William] Shakespeare and he took us to tons of theater.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
The glory is being happy. The glory is not winning here or winning there. The glory is enjoying practicing, enjoy every day, enjoying to work hard, trying to be a better player than before.
Losing is not my enemy. . fear of losing is my enemy.
The only way of finding a solution is to fight back, to move, to run, and to control that pressure.
If somebody says I am better than Roger, I think this person doesn't know anything about tennis.
When one player is better than you, at this moment, the only thing you can do is work, try to find solutions and try to wait a little bit for your time. I'm going to wait and I'm going to try a sixth time. And if the sixth doesn't happen, a seventh. It's going to be like this. That's the spirit of sport.
. . . the space left to freedom is very small. ends are inherent in human nature and the same for all.
She still felt shell-shocked by all of it, numb. Beneath the numbness, though, was a raw and terrible anger that was unlike anything she'd felt before. She had so little experience with genuine anger that it scared her. She actually worried that if she started screaming, she'd never stop.
It would take 2,000 Vietnam Memorials to list the [Twentieth] century's war dead.
I am increasingly afflicted by vertigo where words mean nothing