I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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.

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.

Prayer without gratitude is more like complaining.

I think a blog to live really has to be probably four or five times a day.

I shall be glad when you have strangled the invincible respectability that dogs your steps.

I think history is collective memories. In writing, I'm using my own memory, and I'm using my collective memory.

I have no lucky charm. I am 100 percent superstition-free, and I take nothing for granted.

Naturally, I mine my girlfriends lives for good anecdotes and stories - so many of their experiences find their way into my books.

Ideal goals are a menace in themselves, as much in more modern philosophers as in Plato.

You can love someone like your son, even if he's not your biological son, and you can love someone like your father, even if he's not your biological father.

Every time I see open space I see a mat on the floor

A heart of peaceIs always the bestProblem-solver.