I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

Reading is awesome. Just escaping into someone else's life, into another world. In books, everything is possible.

He who has ears for hearing, let him listen

Originality is deliberate and forced, and partakes of the nature of a protest.

People would rather be wrong than be different.

Failure plus failure plus failure equals success. You only fail when you quit.

Good physical condition is protection. Our strength comes from our body.

Being a human being without forgiveness is like being a guitarist without fingers or being the diva without a tongue.

The question was a fashionable one, whether a definite line exists between psychological and physiological phenomena in human activity; and if so, where it lies?

I don't really do Japanese interviews. I don't think there's much call for me in Japan.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.