I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards becoming a champion.

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.

Finally he said that among men there was no such communion as among horses and the notion that men can be understood at all was probably an illusion.

The apple was meant to take away the bitter taste, perhaps, ” he said.“I imagine that Mr. Turing wasn’t exactly looking for a taste experience, ” said Corell.“Man always tries to limit his suffering.

For you, I wish for second chances

You can always get the truth from an American statesman after he has turned 70 or given up all hope of the Presidency.

A lot of people have told me, you know, that what I've written about, they identify with strongly.

Even now I can't stand being recognized in the street. I just hate it when strangers come up and try to talk to me. I'm pathologically shy.

There is always one way to make anybody do anything - the trouble is to find it.

Some folks think I painted Lincoln from life, but I haven't been around that long. Not quite.

Baseball is our national pastime, that is if you discount political campaigning.

I think love can happen at any age... it has no age.