Champions take responsibility.

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.

But she needs me more than she needs him and I guess being needed is almost as good as being loved. Maybe better.

It's okay if there isn't a God anymore, but I still want to respect something. I don't want to be the center of my own universe,

His kisses tapped into deep mines of memory, and the years that had separated us fell away as if they were nothing.

And suddenly, there were the shapes of many people lurking out of the woods, light glowing from their hands.

You spend a good deal of your life gripping a baseball, and it turns out it was the other way around all the time.

Goalies often react quickly to shots with no regard for what might happen to their body because we are trained to stop pucks first and ask questions later.

Generally I don't like traveling around saying the exact same thing. I don't think that's a very good thing to do with your life.

Have faith in your faith-and doubt your doubts.

I can't climb very seriously now but I was a bit of a freak.

Power is more safely retained by cautious than by severe councils. [Lat., Potentiam cautis quam acribus consiliis tutius haberi.]