A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

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.

I'm not a vegetarian, but I have cut back sharply on the meat that I eat.

Put simply, the church finds itself in a post-Christendom era, and it had better do some serious reflection or face increasing decline and eventual irrelevance.

What I like about theatre is the responsibility you have with your character.

Rest is not a word of free people. Rest is a monarchical word.

Still, to this day I go back and listen to music that inspires me to write now

I think intelligence is totally subjective; it's like sexiness.

Sometimes making people laugh or even making them scared can be accomplished by a good opening sequence.

Homicide's illegal and death is the penalty What justifies the homicide when he dies?

I like army boots, I like peasant skirts - sometimes together! So I do know that I have odd taste.

I give the spectator the possibility of participating. The audience completes the film by thinking about it; those who watch must not be just consumers ingesting spoon-fed images.