Don't worry about what people say.

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.

Just as a fish doesn't know it is wet, so companies often can't see or feel the very opportunities where they are swimming

Trust your gut. You know yourself, so don't let somebody else tell you who you are.

I don't feel there's any reason to apologise for having a wicked imagination. I think it's important as a maker of fantasy and of horror.

I say that I played a doorstop in Dune because I remember standing around a lot. I was down there for months.

All of our children have so much potential. All of our children deserve a chance at life.

My work was entirely nonfiction.

The only way I can cope with me and my environment is to have this kind of wall around me. I'm exhausting myself.

Death is the advertisement, at the end of an autobiography, wherein people discover its virtues.

All creatures are united to God alone in an immediate union. They depend essentially and directly upon Him. Being all alike equally impotent, they cannot be in reciprocal dependence upon one another.

As long as she wants me, I’m here.