I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

We have to be able to grow up. Our wrinkles are our medals of the passage of life. They are what we have been through and who we want to be.

Indifference to all the refinements of life--it's really shocking. Just Calvinism, that's all. Calvinism without the excuse of Calvin's theology.

Heaven is a homegrown cucumber

Be it known that we, the greatest, are misthought.

It's all about the triumph of intellect and romance over brute force and cynicism.

The shallow teapot does the most spouting, and boils dry most quickly!

Early spring is the time for vigorous change, a preparation for the heat-driven oppression that is to come.

Every gain women have made in the past two hundred years has been in the face of experts insisting they couldn't do it and didn't really want to.

I still eat sushi, though I'm trying my best to have my last sushi roll.

Maybe forgetfulness, like a kind snow, should numb and cover them. But they were a part of me. They were my landscape.