The easy, gentle, and sloping path. . . is not the path of true virtue. It demands a rough and thorny road.
It is a big adjustment but I've always loved that old saying of Jack Nicklaus: 'I retired from golf to go to work. ' That sums it up for me.
You win any which way you can. You do what you have to do to get by. That's the way it works in any job.
It's about you. If you win, it's you; if you lose, it's you. Black and white. Nowhere to hide.
Basically, it's just fatigue,. . . I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.
I'm really looking forward to getting back and winning some matches but I'm not thinking about the U. S. Open yet, just getting through my first match.
If I stay healthy and I'm playing good tennis I have as good a chance as anybody.
If you say "the economy," you show you're stupid. There's no such thing as the economy. There is not a unity between the forces of production and the relations of production.
Anyone who really wants to coach and have a lot of impact on people's lives, high school's the way to go. To be honest with you, of all the jobs I've ever had, the one I really, truly enjoyed the most was teaching and coaching in high school. It just doesn't pay as well.
In strategy the longest way round is often the shortest way there- a direct approach to the object exhausts the attacker and hardens the resistance by compression, whereas an indirect approach loosens the defender's hold by upsetting his balance.
Every movie I get involved with I get involved in as big a level as I possibly can, but this has been a very much more personal journey for me, so bringing it here tonight there's a sense of relief, there's a sense of just amazement that got here. . . because it's been a struggle. But this is a good way to launch it and there couldn't be a better way of celebrating this movie than bringing it to the West End.