I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

When witnesses concoct lies, they often miss the obvious.

Thoughts in your head are really no different than the sound of a bird outside. It is just that you decide that they are more or less relevant.

When opportunity presents itself, don't be afraid to go after it.

Acting has always been something for me that's been a romp. I just show up and I have a good time, and I hope that I get through the day and I can have lunch in the sun.

Living movements do not come out of committees.

If I had been more self-conscious about being a woman, it would have stifled me.

Most people are bothered by those passages of Scripture they do not understand, but the passages that bother me are those I do understand.

I was always the youngest boy in my class at high school. I have retained this feeling of being the youngest, even though now I am almost the oldest person I know.

Secretary [John] Kerry has called Civil War [in Syria] an unbelievably small war that we're going to get involved with.