As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.

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.

Let Him easter in us, be a dayspring to the dimness of us, be a crimson-cresseted east.

We've all got both light and dark inside us. What matters is the part we choose to act on. That's who we really are.

Percy!’ Annabeth scolded. ‘You just opened another Monster Doughnut shop somewhere!

Live for something rather than die for nothing.

The actor becomes an emotional athlete.

To stay here and disobey God - I can't afford to take the consequence. I would rather go and obey God than to stay here and know that I disobeyed.

Tea. I find that both settles the stomach and concentrates the mind. Wonderful drink, tea.

Of course, we know that not everyone agrees with assisted suicide, but people might agree that one has the right to it, even if they're not themselves going to exercise it.

My mother always told me I wouldn't amount to anything because I procrastinate. I said, "Just wait."

As a child I perceived violence as a sort of natural law. In the totalitarian Soviet Union, oppression held everything together. It was the sinister energy of our country.