I don’t want to give voice to my problems, for fear of rousing them, making them pounce. - Andre Agassi

My father says that if I hit 2,500 balls each day, I’ll hit 17,500 balls each week, and at the end of one year I’ll have hit nearly one million balls. He believes in math. Numbers, he says, don’t lie. A child who hits one million balls each year will be unbeatable.

some people are thermometers, some are thermostats. You’re a thermostat. You don’t register the temperature in a room, you change it.

We are like blocks of stone … blows of His chisel which hurt us so much are what make us perfect.