Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

We are just an advanced breed of monkeys on a minor planet of a very average star. But we can understand the Universe. That makes us something very special.

Every one of our thoughts needs freedom and space in order to bloom and express beauty.

If you feel that you can solve others problems, then please, work little more on your own problems and solve them first.

A true teacher defends his students against his own personal influences.

A joke a day keeps the gloom away!

Magic naturally fades over distance. But proximity - well, when it works, proximity amplifies magic.

Nobody spends somebody else's money as carefully as he spends his own.

Information defines your personality, your memories, your skills.

India was ... a country filled for the most part with people who live so close to the necessities of existence that only important things are important to them.

I'm born in Liverpool, I'm a Liverpool supporter.