The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.

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.

Learning how to recognize and act on your Inner Knowing is the greatest tool for discovering what's important now by living in the present.

Come live in my heart and pay no rent.

Against the State, against the Church, against the silence of the medical profession, against the whole machinery of dead institutions of the past, the woman of today arises.

I do not think any SFWA communication should come anywhere NEAR the internet.

I'm prejudiced about education altogether. I think it's terribly overrated.

In our life as a civilized person in the industrial age, we are invaded by objects; how could an object have a "force" when it no longer has individuality?

It's nice to see your name in print. It's interesting.

I am not yet born; O fill me with strength against those who would freeze my humanity.

... Change doesn't happen overnight-it's molded by people who don't give up

So be patient. Do not compromise. And give your destiny time to find you.