If you're a champion you have to have it in your heart.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

We will never have a perfect world, but it’s not romantic or naïve to work toward a better one.

By the time your training is complete, you'll come on command my defiant queen.

A simple social engineering hack might involve leaving a thumb drive on the pavement close to the driver's door of a car.

The typical eye sees the ten per cent bad of an idea and overlooks the ninety per cent good.

I never thought Oregon would elect to the U.S. Senate a Mormon, but it did.

Well, I don't need protection One life begins, another dies Bad timing I won't last

Sustainability is living on nature's income rather than living on its capital.

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

As you get older one tends to develop what I call a wobble. I would rather eat glass than let that happen to my voice.

You made me insecure, Told me I wasn't good enough.