Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

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.

Our purpose is to find out whether innocence, the moment it becomes involved in an action, can avoid committing murder.

Harry, my wand!

No adult in my family would ever tell me anything about who my father was. I knew from an older cousin - only four years older than I am - everything, or what little I could discover about him.

A demon was asking me what I wanted. My eyes flicked to Al, and he shrugged. “What do you want?” he said softly.

Education must enable a man to become more efficient, to achieve with increasing facility the legitimate goals of his life.

The virtue of the soul does not consist in flying high, but in walking orderly.

That's also one of the reasons I haven't found a man - he has to get past the other girls first and they are very picky!

Love is a great emotion, but I believe its not just about romance; it could be love for nature, people, for relationships.

A lady is a woman who makes a man behave like a gentleman.

When I'm writing I don't dream much; it's like the dreaming gets used in the writing.