Do not apologize for crying. Without this emotion, we are only robots.
I think I've always had a decent perspective on wins and losses on the tennis court.
At one point in your life, you'll have the thing you want or the reasons why you don't.
Most players who play tennis love the game. But I think you also have to respect it. You want to do everything you can in your power to do your best. And for me, I know I get insane guilt if I go home at the end of the day and don't feel I've done everything I can. If I know I could have done something better, I have this uneasy feeling.
I'm convinced being a tennis analyst is the easiest job in the world.
My serve has killed a small dog. . . I'm joking, I'm joking! The dog was huge!
I enjoy hitting tennis balls. I haven't lost any of the innocent parts of tennis. I just do it in front of less people.
The Dream Lover is a historical novel at once expansively researched yet intimately imagined. George Sand may be the ultimate Berg heroine. 'A life not lived in truth,' Berg writes, 'is a life forfeited. ' In this latest work, Elizabeth Berg has poured her own great gifts and her own great heart into the story of a woman determined to refuse any such forfeiture, no matter the cost.
The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.
The real nature of the present revealed itself: it was what exists, all that was not present did not exist.
I mean, there's a sense wherein you skip a part of childhood, too, when you start working at that age I did; I was out working and out of home at 15, paying my own way in the world.