For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

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.

If you can change the way you think in time you will notice a change in your heart and also a change in your life and the way you see things.

The purpose of a profession is to fulfil the personal wishes of a prospect.

I've never had much use for religion, except when it comes to swearing or begging for mercy.

Every person has a life mission to fulfill. Never attempt to destroy what God has put in another person to do. You don't know God's plans, but Satan will most certainly use you to stop his plans.

Evolution... is the most powerful and the most comprehensive idea that has ever arisen on Earth.

I can't wait until dissent is patriotic again.

She said 'Over my dead body!' so I took her at her word.

Contemporary art challenges us.. it broadens our horizons. It asks us to think beyond the limits of conventional wisdom.

My native land, good night!

The reason some portraits don't look true to life is that some people make no effort to resemble their pictures.