Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.

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.

The last to fall were the buildings, distant and solemn, the gravestones for an entire world.

Do not dispute with anyone in any matter as far as possible. For in argumentation lies much harm and its evil is greater than its benefit.

For me black is not dark, it's poetic. I don't think of gothic I think of classic - it's a big difference.

I take a lot of pride in being Nigerian

You've got to learn to accept the law of life, and face the fact that we disintegrate slowly.

China recognizes and also respects the universality of human rights. We will continue our efforts to promote democracy and the rule of law.

To make what you have in your head, I think that's what directing is.

I would say that I put down a lot of the white American culture, and ways, and beliefs.

Vagabonding is an attitude — a friendly interest in people, places, and things that makes a person an explorer in the truest, most vivid sense of the word.

Oddly enough, MS has made my life so much better than it was before. I now appreciate what I have and I am not running around like a rat in a maze.