I am number one in the world, so I have the right to be arrogant

I'm glad you're doing this story on us and not on the WNBA. We're so much prettier than all the other women in sports.

I was always at peace because of the way my mom treated me.

I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.

What rivalry? I win all the matches.

I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.

A lot of these young girls, they dont even know what the game is about. They have never seen a drop shot, a slice and all the mixture and variety I have.

The older you get, the more you learn.

I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better.

I feel a quarter Indian.

I don't cook... I don't know how to clean... there's may be a good chance I'm an alcoholic.

We work for that part of our vision which is uncompleted.

I just knew if it could be done, it had to be done, and I did it

Please — a little less love, and a little more common decency.

I write all the time. I do artwork that's part of a diary, and I write short stories to go with them pretty much every day.

We need to make a world in which fewer children are born, and in which we take better care of them.

If the only time you think of me as a scientist is during Black History Month, then I must not be doing my job as a scientist.

There's really nothing quite like someone's wanting you dead to make you want to go on living.

Many useful and valuable books lie buried in shops and libraries, unknown and unexamined, unless some lucky compiler opens them by chance, and finds an easy spoil of wit and learning.