Losing streaks are funny. If you lose at the beginning you got off to a bad start. If you lose in the middle of the season, you're in a slump. If you lose at the end, you're choking.
As he is one, so we call Him God, the Deity, the Divine Nature, and other names of the same signification.
I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.
This actual question of 'Why does God allow war?' is not considered or raised as such in the Bible at all.
You might think that religion was the one area in which professional jealousy would take a back seat. But no: ecclesiastical memoirs are as viperish as any, though their envy tends to cloak itself in piety.
That's one of the reasons I moved to Florida. Of course, the main reason is the weather and the training. But there's more jealousy in Switzerland because it's so little and they don't have so many athletes.
I think one has to understand that there are stages in life, and that the life of an athlete has its limits. It's short, and then it stops, and sooner or later you have to accept that.
I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.
Life is too full of distractions nowadays. When I was a kid we had a little Emerson radio and that was it. We were more dedicated. We didn't have a choice.
New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up.
The first time I toured the U.K. was in the early '90s with Billy Pilgrim, so I know how much the people there love music.
They credited us with the birth of that sort of heavy metal thing. Well, if that's the case, there should be an immediate abortion.
I got bad calls every match, and I never got an apology. So I thought it was rather strange.
But, you know, I just want to play well and have fun playing well.
I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.
It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
The idea that the Tony committee and the New York theater community as a whole have embraced 'Billy Elliot' is very, very exciting.
I have a fondness for jazz, particularly for jazz singers, Billie Holiday and Ella Fitzgerald all the way through the Sinatra era.
People are afraid of things they don't understand. They don't know how to relate. It threatens their security, their existence, their career, image.
Some people think I'm a rock 'n' roll musician and some think I'm a jazz musician but, for me, there is no difference.
