I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

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.

Sweets to the sweet.

No civilization, no matter how mighty it may appear to itself, is indestructible.

One of my favorite movies is 'A Guide to Recognizing Your Saints.'

Scots are Jocks,WelshmenTaffies, and Irishmen Paddies or Micks but?it is noticeable there is no similar designation for the English.

Graphic design will save the world right after rock and roll does.

When you have a 13 year old child, you suddenly realize that you may need to pick a vocation.

Life takes on meaning when you become motivated, set goals and charge after them in an unstoppable manner.

There are many pages in the book, many kinds of lives we each can live, many ways to be rich, and even more to be poor.

I have a sense of destiny that you are led to the things you are supposed to do.

I have studied at the school of the world.