“Better yourself. Don’t belittle yourself.”

Cold hearts cannot serve warm love.

There is pain here, but there is also power.

Teach boys that manhood is not determined by how often they hold back their tears.

This is not the season to shrink ourselves for anyone.

If peace is a priority, manage what you respond to.

Don’t rob the world of who you are by trying to be someone else.

Find rest in the space between who you are and who you want to be.

I don’t want to be perfect. I want to be free.

Speak to yourself like you would a child whom you love.

Where you are now, is not where you will always be.

Things that don’t work out often pave the way for things that will.

We only stop growing when we resist change.

The more love we give, the more healing we receive.

Take perfection, give me peace.

Rejection is a reminder to go where you are valued.

I can exist where there is chaos and not be swept away from it.

To wisely live your life, you don’t need to know much just remember two main rules for the beginning: You better starve, than eat whatever And better be alone, than with whoever.

There’s no better feeling than realizing you no longer reside in the same realm you used to. Growth is so beautiful.

Whoever plays well on a given day, that player wins.

I think I’m like wine. The older I get, the better I get.

Tennis has never been the most important thing in my life. My family, my health, my happiness they are more important to me. On court, I want to win. Off court, I want to be a better person. Tennis is a path to my future.

It is better to die than to preserve this life by incurring disgrace. The loss of life causes but a moment’s grief, but disgrace brings grief every day of one’s life.

It is best to live with honor for just a day than with dishonor for many decades; better a short lived celestial swan than a century-lived crow.

I heard endless conversations between my parents when I was going to sleep about how we would survive, how we would continue. All of them were about trying to make me better.