I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

I don’t write poetry when I wish, I write when I can’t, when my larynx is flooded and my throat is shut.

America's sanctions policy remains intact, and it will remain intact until it changes, if it does, and I'm not sure it will.

You instinctively like what you can't do.

American politics can produce great men and women, but it is profoundly insular.

I think there's something fun about television where, as an actor, when you read the script each week, it's like how the audience experiences watching the show each week.

Abbey Lee was a very famous model and had great success. She was very open about the negative aspects of that industry.

In a very ugly and sensible age, the arts borrow, not from life, but from each other.

Relationships serve as a gateway to expansion, when there is no longer expansion, there is no longer a relationship.

When you dance tango fast, you have to think slow.

The church should be a place where people can be free to say that they are sinners.