If you look at any superior athlete, you will find a strong parental influence. Parents introduce their children to a sport, and then they support them.
It has nothing to do with swimming. That happens to be my sport. I'm trying to see how far I can go.
The tradition in Serbia has always been team sports - football, basketball, handball, volleyball and water polo, individual sports are not supported.
I think sometimes when it comes to sports, and especially relationships between players and coaches, that people lose track, lose a sense of reality.
Our sport is not made for anybody to be able to play it, especially at the NFL level, so there's obviously some risk that we all take knowingly.
I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the strength of compassion is something that healers have and healers use.'
Fame and success and titles stay with you, but they wear out eventually. In the end, all that you are left with is your character.
I love being around people who care about me, and I care about them.
Ash: That's it, go ahead and run. Run home and cry to mama!
Ash: [after crushing skeletons with boulders] Ooh that's gotta hurt.
Unlike in my young days I'm not able to eat, drink and sleep tennis.
The thing is the game is getting tougher and tougher and we have to ask a lot of our bodies.
I believe you should give 100% on the court, so I chase every ball.
Stay in school kids or you'll end up being an umpire.
I've got more out of tennis than I could ever give back.
I don't think anyone in their right mind takes me serious.
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.
I throw as hard as I can when I think I have to throw as hard as I can.
No ashes are lighter than those of incense, and few things burn out sooner.
