Prayer is not monologue, but dialogue; God's voice is its most essential part. Listening to God's voice is the secret of the assurance that He will listen to mine.

Prayer is reaching out after the unseen; fasting is letting go of all that is seen and temporal. Fasting helps express, deepen, confirm the resolution that we are ready to sacrifice anything, even ourselves to attain what we seek for the kingdom of God.

I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.

Sometimes you're looking to play perfect tennis but it's not going to happen all the time and you have to accept it.

If the spiritual life be healthy, under the full power of the Holy Spirit, praying without ceasing will be natural.

Boxing, mixed martial arts and tennis are the hardest sports to train for.

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.