I think it's really important to have portion control. I don't believe in losing weight quickly.

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.

Be king in your dreams. Make your vow that you will reach that position, with untarnished reputation, and make no other vow to distract your attention.

People are always ready to admit a man's ability after he gets there.

Too late. It's hatched.

I'm shocked to find out we still sell something people want.

Biblical references about knowledge and good and evil often get tangled up.

We are mortgaging our future.

I am life, I am strength, I am woman.

He knew what he knew: that the real world was full of magic, so magical worlds could easily be real.

I watched tons of archive footage of princess Margaret and listened to the music she loved; that was really immersive and brilliant.

The web of our life is of a mingled yarn, good and ill together: our virtues would be proud if our faults whipped them not; and our crimes would despair if they were not cherished by our own virtues.