I am not blonde, yes. Have I dreamt about having a model contract? No. But have I dreamed about winning Wimbledon? Absolutely.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play?

I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

The first time at age 5 and a half, when I took a racket in my hands and my father fed me some balls, I made 50 backhands in a row - didn't miss a single one.

If I could write the beauty of your eyesAnd in fresh numbers number all your graces, The age to come would say 'this poet lies! Such heaven never touched earthly faces

By the time I came down from Yale, I was already more radicalized and had begun to read New Masses.

I love cloisters, which are the architectural equivalent of a theological concept: perfect freedom within set boundaries.

Like every other place, I guess, Kansas City was quite a different city when I was a youngster there. They had quite a few clubs, and we had what we used to call jam sessions every night.

I would put belly laughing at the top of my highlights list. They always say that laughter is the best medicine.

I think everyone is ticklish. You just gotta find the right spots.

it has been long and justly remarked, that folly has ever sought alliance with beauty.

Hospitality sometimes degenerates into profuseness, and ends in madness and folly.

If fighting for working families is playing the women's card, you know what, deal me in.

As Pa said, censorship encouraged people to believe nonsense.