This was my first final on clay and to come out and play a match like that, I am very pleased to have won, i had very few chances when I was returning. I was lucky to get a couple of good shots when I was behind in the tiebreak and hang on in the end.

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I don't play any tournaments to come second best.

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In tennis, it is not the opponent you fear, it is the failure itself, knowing how near you were but just out of reach.

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Give it everything you've got. Leave nothing out there.

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I've had an entrepreneurial mindset from a young age and I've been interested in companies and products that are a little bit different.

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I'll be supporting anyone but England.

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For me the most important thing has always been tennis, and that's what I want to get across the image I want to portray is a hard-working tennis player.

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You have to go into each match believing you can beat all of the players.

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I used to think that losing made you more hungry and determined but after my success at the Olympics and the U.S. Open I realise that winning is the biggest motivation.

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I had to pay an incredible amount to get insured on it and, after a couple of weeks of driving it around, I realised it wasn't quite my style. I'm not flash by any means but a bright red Ferrari is a definite head-turner and I hated that. It was also incredibly impractical, particularly when it came to finding space for a friend or for my tennis bag, so I decided to sell it after a few months.

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I've realised over the years I play my best when I have time to prepare for each tournament as best as possible.

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Where resources are plentiful (i.e. no constraints), you will find very little creativity. Where resources are scarce (i.e. many constraints), you will find an abundance of creativity.

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I think most players would love, at one stage in their career, to say, 'I've been No. 1 in the world.

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There is need of a great revival of spiritual life, of truly fervent devotion to our Lord Jesus, of entire consecration to His service. It is only in a church in which this spirit of revival has at least begun, that there is any hope of radical change in the relation of the majority of our Christian people to mission work.

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I was playing in the juniors at Wimbledon I forgot to turn my mobile phone off. It was lying there in my bag and it rang in the middle of a match, and it was one of my friends from school saying, 'Murray, you're on the telly!' I learnt from that. I now put my phone on silent.

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I'm definitely open to change, but at the same time I am quite stubborn.

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It's not the end of the world to lose.

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When a lot of things are going the wrong way for a country, for a people, when you can't really think of anything worse than a war, you always try to take life on the brighter side and that's how I grew up with my parents.

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A believer may pass through much affliction, and yet secure very little blessing from it all. Abiding in Christ is the secret of securing all that the Father meant the chastisement to bring us.

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I've been asked a lot lately if tennis is clean or not. I don't know any more how you judge whether a sport is clean. If one in 100 players is doping, in my eyes that isn't a clean sport.

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I'm a global ambassador for the World Wildlife Fund and United for Wildlife and I am also a Unicef UK ambassador. It's important to me to support charities. I never want to take my wealth for granted.

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