"I believed in raising my children as I had been raised."

Family, Children

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"I am sure that if the mothers of various nations could meet, there would be no more wars."

E. M. Forster, English Novelist

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"It's funny how two people can grow up in the same town, go to the same school, have the same friends, and end up so totally different. Family, or lack of it, counts for more than you'd think."

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"Mother is the center of the family, everyone else surrounds her."

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"There's something wrong with a mother who washes out a measuring cup with soap and water after she's only measured water in it."

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"Behind all your stories is always your mother's story. Because hers is where yours begin."

Mitch Albom, American Writer

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"If you don't have the support and love and caring and connection that you get from a family, you don't have much at all."

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"I tell you, families are definitely the training ground for forgiveness."

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"Don't say negative things about your spouse and children."

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"Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her."

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"Our acts make or mar us, we are the children of our own deeds."

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"I lost in the second round of the French Open and had 10 days off. I went to the Hard Rock Cafe. It was exciting to be away from my parents, to stay in a hotel. Hotels at 17 meant freedom."

Freedom

"Does anyone ask their parents how they are conceived?"

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"When you are thrown onto the stage at 17 in such an enormous way, it becomes living on the edge because every step you take, every word you speak, every action you do becomes headline news. And it became, for me, life or death."

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"Where do you go when you're the best in the world? What's next?"

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"I'm not a God, I make mistakes."

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"I was in the tennis bubble. I wasn't thinking about the big picture. I didn't notice what they said on television, I wasn't reading any papers. I had a coach and a manager, and they kept me in the bubble."

Reading

"That's the hard part about sport: as men we haven't started to be in our prime, but as athletes we are old people. I needed support. I lost trust and did stupid things."

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"The eyes of some of the fans at Davis Cup matches scare me. There's no light in them. Fixed emotions. Blind worship. Horror. It makes me think of what happened to us long ago."

Idolatry

"I go to my favourite tournament, I talk about my favourite sport and it's just a great month of parading."

Talk

"An autobiography is not about pictures; it's about the stories; it's about honesty and as much truth as you can tell without coming too close to other people's privacy."

Truth