Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

There is not a corner of this world that God has abandoned.

You learn who you are by unlearning who they taught you to be.

‎Man is never his emotions and that all feelings are ephemeral- that no one is truly genuinely ecstatic, sad, angry or passionately in love forever, which means emotions are never to be trusted.

Some of us fast so that we can have less discomfort in life. The reason is not far-fetched – God is not interested in your comfort. He is more interested in your purpose.

I went out under the sky, Muse! and I was your vassal.

Develop an 'attitude of gratitude.' Say thank you to everyone you meet for everything they do for you

I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.

Envy, like flame, blackens that which is above it, and which it cannot reach.

Nothing hurts worse than the loss of money.

Not everyone coming to you with a problem wants a solution. They are attached to the attention it brings them.