I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

He who cannot endure the bad will not live to see the good.

The Old Testament is actually pretty raunchy. You might enjoy it.

I don't think you should die until you're ready. Until you've wrung out every last bit of living you can.

Great artists have no country.

To get to be somebody who gets to love what they do for a living, that's so rare, and so there must be some kind of price you have to pay.

The master swordsman isn't interested in killing people. He only wants to perfect his art.

A loving wife is better than making 50 in cricket, or even 99, beyond that I will not go.

I think music is one of the hero/sheroes of the African-American existence.

There's plenty of juice to keep this economy going.

It cannot be too often repeated that it is not helps, but obstacles, not facilities, but difficulties that make men.