It's always good to get a smaller tournament under your belt so that by the time you get to the Slams, you have a lot of experience.

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.

Inspiration for my short stories grows from a psychic kernel, a vision of some sort or an eccentric, colorful dream.

You’re telling stories again. You have the disease of telling stories, Roland.

Reading leads to knowing more. Knowing more leads to arrogance. Reading further leads to humbleness.

The basis of computer work is predicated on the idea that only the brain makes decisions and only the index finger does the work.

Two-thirds of American movies are extensions of commercials -- they tell you how to feel and they tell you how to think -- rather than letting you figure it out on your own.

Even pirates, before they attack another ship, hoist a black flag.

Artists are visionaries. We routinely practice a form of faith, seeing clearly and moving toward a creative goal that shimmers in the distance - often visible to us, but invisible to those around us.

I can analyze people's intentions. Immediately.That's just a warning. To everyone.

I think it'd be useful for parents to know kind of what is the culture of an institution.

There is more He-3 energy on the Moon than we have ever had in the form of fossil fuels on Earth. All we have to do is to go there and get it.