You've got to take the initiative and play your game ... confidence makes the difference.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

We all have the ability to make someone's life better with our love.

The stone you took away from a beach will long for that beach because it belongs there!

You know, I grew up on romantic comedies, and it's hard to find a new way to tell that story.

Los Angeles is a sprawl of broken dreams and lost opportunities, disconnected souls and entertainment junkies. The sunny skies and graceful palms don't redeem jammed roadways to nowhere.

Once I have children, the kids come first. One thing at a time for me.

You will expect me to discuss the late election. Well, as nearly as I can learn, we did not have enough votes on our side.

I want a blaze of light to flame in me forever in a timeless, dear love of everything. And why should I pretend to want anything else?

But they were wrong. There was a reason.

I'm an entrepreneur and I love business. That's what I've always done. I went to school for that. My father took me out and said, 'You're gonna be here like everybody else.'

Peace is achieved with rice and salt, not with katanas and arrows