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.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public eye with his pants down.

The key to our scientific future, ....is hidden in our past

If 600,000 people have to die in order for the nation to live, then 600,000 people will die.

Of all sweet passions Shame is the loveliest.

I really wish I was less of a thinking man and more of a fool not afraid of rejection.

With the right foundation, any woman can look like she naturally has even, perfect skin

Know this, if someone has cheated on you who truly loves you, they have hurt themselves as much as they have hurt you.

There is nothing like literature: I lose a cow, I write about her death, and my writing pays me enough to buy another cow.

I was raised on the internet.

For me comedy and violence has a lot in common. Just as you expect, comedy always lurks behind the most unexpected of circumstances.