They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.
'I'm not that easy to get rid of,' Andre retorts. 'As you know well. What state are you in? Besides confusion.'
There are people who are uncanny, who are finished products at a young age. I wasn't, thank God.
People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?
There is a line between scurrilous nonsense and serious discussion that laps over, especially in this day and age when you've got all this electronic media and these blogs and this kind of fanatical impulse to bring down the opposing candidate.
The Metropolitan Museum has all of our collections online, all our scholarly publications and catalogues since 1965. We have online features like the timeline of art history.
Film editing is now something almost everyone can do at a simple level and enjoy it, but to take it to a higher level requires the same dedication and persistence that any art form does.
The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.
Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.
I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.
The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.
What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.
I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.
I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.
I feel like every movie, I've learned more and more about what I think of the world and what I'm trying to figure out.
I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.
We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.
Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.
We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.
