Anna Kournikova will always be better paid than Lindsay Davenport. The first left the circuit without having won a single title while the second was world number one.

I am not blonde, yes. Have I dreamt about having a model contract? No. But have I dreamed about winning Wimbledon? Absolutely.

I have no sponsors because I am not blond, tall and slim enough

It can be boring to see the same players winning every time.

I like to draw, produce paintings, do something with my fingers - but I am very normal, down-to-earth person.

I can't permit myself to do things halfway; I never was like that.

I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

Maybe something is wrong with me but I just think I'm normal. I'm not super-skinny but I'm not super-fat. But I don't really care about what other people say.

I started faster today which was good. I returned well but my serve was good, which was the key. I think I'm getting used to the conditions.

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play?

I will have won Wimbledon this year in 2013, and I will stop with that. It was magnificent. You will certainly see me at tournaments again, but not playing.

If you have the words, there's always a chance that you'll find the way.

Well, just get used to it, because you're a long ways away from Kansas, my dear. She actually started singing "The Sun Will Come Out Tomorrow" as she traipsed to the counter.

I never fell. I don't care what they say. I'm still doing my job, as I see it.

The proper time to influence the character of a child is about 100 years before he is born.

Time itself comes in drops.

Those who see worldly life as an obstacle to Dharma see no Dharma in everyday actions. They have not yet discovered that there are no everyday actions outside of Dharma.

There are truths which one can only say after having won the right to say them.

It's a huge thing when people realize across the culture that paper money is paper. And that there's no fixed value - it's all political. That all value is set by a political authority, basically.

A journey does not need reasons. Before long, it proves to be reason enough in itself. One thinks that one is going to make a journey, yet soon it is the journey that makes or unmakes you.

No race has a monopoly on vice or virtue, and the worth of an individual is not related to the color of his skin.