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.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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.

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

Your intuition speaks on a higher plane than anything you’ll ever grasp.

If you want to know where your heart is, look where your mind goes when it wanders.

Do you believe in God, Martin?'And he answered, 'Yes, because of His trees. Don't you?''I'm not sure...''Oh, my poor, blind Stephen! Look again, go on looking until you do believe.

I think when you've travelled around a lot in Africa, you understand something that many people here don't recognize: the extraordinary power that is Africa at village level - at community level.

When I was a teenager, I thought nothing would ever happen to me because my childhood was so normal. I had this complex of normality.

Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals.

I like the idea of the artist going out in the world, creating a dialogue

I felt like a seed in a pomegranate. Some say that the pomegranate was the real apple of Eve, fruit of the womb, I would eat my way into perdition to taste you.

Today's comics use four-letter words as a shortcut to thinking. They're shooting for that big laugh and it becomes a panic thing, using four-letter words to shock people.

Life is about creating new opportunities, not waiting for them to come to you.