If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

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.

Maybe, if I had lied all those years ago, my life could have followed a very different path. But as it is I faithfully follow the long, long thread the Fates have woven for me.

Face-to-face with a computer, people reflected on who they were in the mirror of the machine.

No one knows what he can do until he tries.

It's a strange city... filled with things that are not obvious.

We will die a slow death over the next two years as this oil creeps ashore.

If a guy can't handle you in sweatpants, than he doesn't deserve you in a wedding dress.

Things will be very bad for Latin America. You only have to consider the ambitions and the doctrines of the empire, which regards this region as its backyard.

Nobody should be entirely defined by one thing

Red Bull doesn't give you wings, it just makes ya sick.

Israel is a start-up nation, and I think it can be done in other places. I will do it outside the government. I don't need the government.