I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Those old sayings about Give It Time, and Time is a Healer depend on just whose time it is.

Good, don't think. Thinking is highly overrated.

Become a gift in the lives of others and you will always be well received.

I am! I have come through! I belong!

I just want to show off my scar proudly and not be afraid of it.

If Shakespeare was alive today, he'd be writing wrestling shows.

A friend is like a good bra: hard to find, comfortable, supportive, always lifts you up, makes you look better, never lets you down or leaves you hanging, and always close to your heart.

Who can judge the judge?

The rules are learnt in order to be broken, but if you don't know them, then something is missing.

The study of theology, as it stands in the Christian churches, is the study of nothing.