Never give up, never give in, and when the upper hand is ours, may we have the ability to handle the win with the dignity that we absorbed the loss.

It's hard to explain but I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard. And this desire never to stop fighting is something else I learnt in the place where I grew up.

I hated every minute of it. But I said to myself, 'Suffer now, and live the rest of your life as a champion'.

Our mind is all we've got. Not that it won't lead us astray sometimes, but we still have to analyze things out within ourselves.

You're never a loser until you quit trying.

I have never known a day when I didn't learn something new about this game.