I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

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.

Whoever said that money didn't buy happiness was a damn fool. A damn fool who'd never been poor.

Still shuddering, he collapsed atop her on a long, strangled groan. It sounded as if someone had just wrung out his soul.Ella knew precisely how he felt.

One unforeseen advantage of having a  child was that it gave me the excuse to talk to myself to my heart's content and pretend it was for my daughters benefit.

All other goods by fortune's hand are given: A wife is the peculiar gift of Heav'n.

All comedians are, in a way, anarchists. Our job is to make fun of the existing world.

If I move one way, I lose a couple votes. If I move another way, I lose a couple votes.

Forget aging. If you're six feet above ground, it's a good day.

If there are problems with the subtle physical body, it's very hard for the kundalini to flow.

It's in your DNA to be a Filipino; how can you just turn your back on it?

How rare and wonderful is that flash of a moment when we realize we have discovered a friend.