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.

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.

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.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

These cumbersome vehicles were as convenient as if dinosaurs had survived to be used by cowboys for driving cattle

There are many photographs which are full of life but which are confusing and difficult to remember. It is the force of an image which matters.

From what I have seen, I am driven to the conclusion that religion is only good for good people.

In real life, I always look at people and how they walk, or how they carry themselves. I think about the body a lot, in performance.

When I said I didn't have a cent, I didn't. I used to get annoyed with people who said they were broke when they had five dollars.

Speed kills colour... the gyroscope, when turning at full speed, shows up gray.

A contented mind is the best source for trouble.

A textual analysis of the Second Amendment supports an individual right to bear arms.

I was in the car driving back, after having done a scene where I kill somebody, and I just said to the driver, "I can't talk right now. I'm too emotional." The whole car ride back, I was just crying.

What words are in you that can change the world?