The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

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.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

The skies give no warning when they fall.

Don't stand back with your arms folded

The dark side of life, and the horror of it, belonged to a world that lay remote from his own select little atmosphere of books and dreamings.

Why do we insist women are cast 10 years younger than the role they're playing? Men don't know what a 30-year-old is supposed to look like because on TV she's always 20.

[Adulthood:] It's when you stop doing the stuff you have to make excuses for and when you stop making excuses for the stuff you have to do.

The word is a force you cannot see, but you can see the manifestation of that force, the expression of the word, which is your own life.

"He mentioned it!" one of the ghosts whimpered.

The rule is you have to dance a little bit in the morning before you leave the house because it changes the way you walk out in the world.

I am no lover of disorder and doubt as such. Rather do I fear to lose truth by this pretension to possess it already wholly.