Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

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.

I love you as certain dark things are to be loved, in secret, between the shadow and the soul.

Every night I cut out my heart. But in the morning it was full again

There isn’t a parallel of latitude but thinks it would have been the equator if it had had its rights.

Oh, how magical it will be to have winter come every year.

Law is nothing else but the best reason of wise men applied for ages to the transactions and business of mankind.

One is never too old for romance.

Work hard to discover your gift and you will never envy or hate another human being who is manifesting theirs.

I don't care for werewolves. They're all right, I guess, if you go for the shedding, savaging the country-side thing. But they're not very scary nor very sexy and so what's the point?

Everybody wants power and control in their life.

I told her I knew when I was going to die because my birth certificate had an expiration date on it.