Life is so uncertain: you never know what could happen. One way to deal with that is to keep your pajamas washed.
There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you're a kid.
I try to incorporate faith every day, to not remind myself of past failures, to learn how to forgive and to trust the future.
Sometimes the snow comes down in June, sometimes the sun goes around the moon.
The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as human beings, as opposed to figures you have to fight against.
Sometimes the very thing you're looking for is the one thing you cannot see.
I'm not perfect, but I'm focused when I have a goal.
If work is just going in every day and getting a check, it's an ugly life. When you can make work a meaningful purpose, you've hit the jackpot for people.
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two. . . . That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?
Only he who can view his own past as an abortion sprung from compulsion and need can use it to full advantage in the present. For what one has lived is at best comparable to a beautiful statue which has had all its limbs knocked off in transit, and now yields nothing but the precious block out of which the image of one's future must be hewn.
I can count on one hand how many people I trust.