Quotes About Victory

In tennis it's easy to get greedy - and one Grand Slam doesn't feel enough any more.

Once you succeed in tennis, financially you become quite well off.

Tennis is what I've always wanted to do, so it is my dream to be on top.

Those big matches, when you go through so much, are the best thing. Those matches are why you play tennis.

I think people have this love-hate relationship with tennis. I also feel like that.

I'm just super competitive. Squash, tennis, water skiing, computer games... Even if I played you at pool, I'd have to win.

I'm glad that I can play the tennis that I always wish to play.

I know it's just sport; it's just tennis.

The most important thing is definitely success on the tennis court. I know that if I win matches, everything else will fall into place, and the money and sponsors will follow.

As a tennis player, you have a record, and that is what counts. I feel like I enjoyed myself, and I'm proud of what I accomplished.

To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

As a tennis player, normally you lose almost every week.

I'm a good tennis player, and I've never done so good on grass.

I had true rivalries. Not only did I want to beat my opponent, but I didn't want to let him up, either. I had a rivalry with Mac, Lendl, Borg. Everybody knew there was tension between us, on court and off. That's what's really ingrained in my mind: 'This is real. This isn't a soft rivalry.' There were no hugs and kisses.

Monopoly may also end in tears, but its tensions are cruder, lacking the infinitely subtle shadings of irritation and acrimony provided by Scrabble.

Any time you go into the playoff game everyone's adrenaline is high and tensions are going, stuff like that.

I was a 23-year-old law student when I won the 'Great British Bake Off' in 2012. For 10 weeks I had balanced my degree finals with the tension and scrutiny inside the white tent (not to mention a few nights out here and there).

In 1998 Harry Reid and I had a very close race. It was less than a tenth of a percentage point. We had a reasonable recount. There were a lot of things that I could have pursued at the time, but I just felt that at the time that I should have, you know, conceded the race.

When I hear a guy lost a battle to cancer, that really did bother me, that that's a term. It implies that he failed and that somebody else that defeated cancer is heroic and courageous.

We use the term 'fight' very lightly - 'I've been fighting so hard to get my car, I've been fighting so hard to get that job, I've been fighting so hard to get that girl.' But the reality is boxers do fight bitterly to get whatever they want or whatever they need in life, and most of them come from nothing, which is the case of Roberto Duran.

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

A lot of campaign lexicon is very militaristic - even the term 'campaign.'

I don't consider myself a survivor; that's someone who has gone through something terrible.

Terrible is the fight put up by the senses. Fight bravely! Conquer them you must.