No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.

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.

Only God Himself fully appreciates the influence of a Christian mother in the molding of character in her children.

The totality of life cannot be understood, so runs Sufi teaching, if it is studied only through the methods which we use in everyday living.

I dont drive around London much. Any journey around Islington involves hundreds of speed bumps that seem to tear the bottom of your car off.

It is great to be a part of the whole skating family, and it makes me feel ecstatic that my name will be among the greats of the sport.

I drank a second mouthful in which I find nothing more than in the first, then a third which gives me rather less than the second. It is time to stop; the potion is losing its magic.

The more I invested in myself, the kinder I was to myself and the more I understood myself.

You look different. You look unsettling.’ ‘You look like you,’ he said. ‘You with the volume turned up.

Oh yeah, this was so comforting. Like a porcupine in a condom factory.’ (Danger)

I was brought up in Scotland and have always been a country person, although the town means a great deal to me, too.