Pierre de Coubertin Quotes

You have to wonder at times what you're doing out there. Over the years, I've given myself a thousand reasons to keep running, but it always comes back to where it started. It comes down to self-satisfaction and a sense of achievement.

I think of myself as someone who gives everything, and I wake up every day wanting to keep growing.

I decided to practice alone because it was a challenge for me to see how much I love tennis. And making sure I was not trying just to respond to other people's expectations and that I really wanted it myself. I realized that I just loved tennis, that it was something extraordinary, that I would really want to do that.

I try to take everything in my stride and remain humble, and to enjoy playing as much as possible.

If I didn't do what I do, I wouldn't be as young as I am.

And it was a great experience, you know, to travel the world and compete at a certain level. It teaches you discipline, focus, and certainly keeps you out of trouble.

I continuously go further and further learning about my own limitations, my body limitation, psychological limitations. It's a way of life for me.

But it is only through constant, faithful endeavor by the girl herself that the goal eventually is reached.

I think it's really important to give yourself a very big question that you're working on that you can come home to, even if you, you know, are going to have to go without a cup of coffee or even a meal, that that should nourish you.

If I hadn't spent many years trying to be as compassionate as Mother Teresa, as positive a thinker as W. Clement Stone, as prolific a writer as Stephen King, and as good a speaker as many of the legends I have studied, I would not be as successful as I am today.

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

If I stayed in this game for individual achievements, I don't think I'd still be playing.

And still I'm not completely happy with my skating. I always feel I can do more and climb higher.

I don't know if I'm so much fueled by trying to one-up myself so much as passionate about coming up with new and greater challenges. I don't see it as a contest, but as a natural progression.

I'm always amazed when a pitcher becomes angry at a hitter for hitting a home run off him. When I strike out, I don't get angry at the pitcher, I get angry at myself. I would think that if a pitcher threw up a home run ball, he should be angry at himself.

Work harder on yourself than you do on your job.

I don't think I'm a star. I just love to act. I'm not thinking I'm even close to where I want to be.

I always tried to do the best. I knew I couldn't always be the best, but I tried to be.

You must never be satisfied with losing. You must get angry, terribly angry, about losing. But the mark of the good loser is that he takes his anger out on himself and not his victorious opponents or on his teammates.

It is my nature to strive to do my best. This does tend to take a toll on you.

We learn the inner secret of happiness when we learn to direct our inner drives, our interest and our attention to something besides ourselves.

Tennis has given me soul.

You have to be passionate about something other than yourself!

I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.

It's amazing how much you can learn if your intentions are truly earnest.