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If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.
I believe in Karma. If the good is sown, the good is collected. When positive things are made, that returns well.
In tennis you're on an island. Of all the games men and women play, tennis is the closest to solitary confinement.
I've been criticized for not having perspective in the past and I thought that of myself many times but not there.
My backhand is definitely a lot more solid and consistent. There were times when I couldn't hit it into the ocean.
If there were rankings for press conferences, I wouldn't have to worry about dropping out of the top five, I hope.
My humanity, in common with all of God's children, gives the greatest flight to my full range of my possibilities.
Drummed into me, above all, by my dad, by the whole family, was that without your good name, you would be nothing.
Someone that I'm really inspired by, and that I look up to, is Oprah. It's amazing how she created such an empire.
I have so many different interests in so many areas that sometimes I just need to chill, step back, and let it be.
Always believe in yourself and never give up because you don't know what success could be right around the corner.
Yes, there are moments when it's frustrating where you can't put the ball where you want it and you make mistakes.
I think I’ll play two years more, if my own body lets me do that... I still think my best tennis is still to come.
While designed to visually seduce, Dune is not primarily a formal exercise but a social, ecological, cultural one.
My goal is to keep him away from that and play the match on my terms so that I can be aggressive and not hesitate.
Even in Canada, I never even played ice hockey. I never skated in my life; I always did rollerblade street hockey.
I don't think, that you can always - you can ever - get your game to perfection, you know. Only if you're Federer.
My office is just off my master bedroom. One of my theories is I needed to double-door it with three kids at home.
I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.
I think, of course, when you are coming somewhere, when you know you are playing good tennis, it always helps you.
I'm not the best player in the history of tennis. I think I'm amongst the best. That's true. That's enough for me.
I love tennis! I've always felt like this because it is such a classy sport with a great, competitive flair to it.
I have to fit holidays around tournaments, particularly the grand slams, in Melbourne, Paris, London and New York.
All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.
Stress is part of your career. You have to accept it and deal with it because there is a lot of emotion in tennis.
I like Chennai very much. The atmosphere is always great, and the fans are amazing. That's why I keep coming back.
My comeback was not about winning or losing; it was about the feeling of being able to compete at top level again.
I've had some decent wins this year against higher ranked players but what I've failed to do is to build on those.
Playing the tennis circuit, I travelled so much for so long, that being at home is now one of my favourite things.
If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
I had moments of my actions and words not reflecting who it is I am - if that defines a punk, then yes, absolutely.
Everything in tennis is so neat and nice but boxing has sport down to its essence; it is very pure and I like that.
If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.
There's no doubt there are issues with clay. Our issues have issues that are issues right now. That's not a secret.
The only one I feel pressure from is myself to go and give my all for every match and, obviously, I'm a competitor.
I think you just have to take life as it goes, and I believe you never get things put on you that you can't handle.
When you change, you change with what you got. What I got is my speed. I got a little bit of my instinct and flair.
Now that I get to be more consistent with the winning, it's tougher for some people to say that I'm just a showman.
The trouble with me is that every match I play against five opponents: umpire, crowd, ball boys, court, and myself.
It's very nice to see when somebody who wanted to work hard and is willing to put the work in gets rewarded for it.
It's a simple question of supply and demand. But all of us are grossly overpaid. I think it's a ridiculous dispute.
What separates the winners from the losers is that they can deal with doing their best while still coming up short.
If they think I'm better at commentating than I was as a player, then I must be pretty darned good at commentating.
When occupations come to us we must accept them; when things come to us we must understand them from the ground up.
We have a harder way to succeed in life as Serbs because of the past that we had and because of the history we had.
I always had the theory that the most important thing is be happy, enjoy what are you doing, and be fresh mentally.
My serve can get better, for sure. It's not just about serving bombs, but positioning, variation in speed, in spin.
An otherwise happily married couple may turn a mixed doubles game into a scene from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf.
My favorite food is macaroni and cheese that my grandma makes. My favorite drink has to be Vita Coco coconut water.
People have been asking me for a couple of years when I am going to retire, and I think that now is the right time.