I drew my strength from fear. Fear of losing. I don't remember the games I won, only the games I lost.

So this is it. Match point for eternity.

I love the winning, I can take the losing, but most of all I love to play.

If I go into a club now, all the blonde girls leave my corner and all the black girls come into my corner. It's as if I'm racist towards white girls!

I haven't lost a war. No one got killed. I just lost a tennis match.

Every time you are not practicing someone else is.

I met with my lawyers. They gave me all the wrong advice. For a long time I refused to accept the child was mine. I should have met her, arranged a DNA test and accepted my responsibility.

I can't change history, I don't want to change history. I can only change the future. I'm working on that.

Tennis is a psychological sport, you have to keep a clear head. That is why I stopped playing.

I don't really care what the man on the street thinks. I never did anything to please him in the first place, and I'm not going to start now.

I believe that everything in life happens for a reason.

Improvement makes strait roads, but the crooked roads without Improvement, are roads of Genius.

Memories tell me who I was, not who I’ll become. They don’t fix the present any more than they fix the past.

We threw ourselves at that wild river every day and most days it tossed us all harmlessly skyward like well-loved children. After a while that does something to you.

It is not enough to know your craft - you have to have feeling. Science is all very well, but for us imagination is worth far more.

In Spain people have lunch and dinner a lot later - when I return to England I'll have to eat alone at midnight.

The men liked to put me down as the best woman painter. I think I'm one of the best painters.

I think, charitable foundations are, in general, a good thing.

My sister is an artist and an interior designer. She went to high school for art. I went to high school for music.

Man, is an indivisible entity, an integrated unit of mind and body.

Faith is intellectual laziness.