In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

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.

God created all people good.

You must learn to wait for the fulfillment of your visions.

The first thing to learn in intercourse with others is non-interference with their own peculiar ways of being happy provided those ways do not assume to interfere with ours.

Pretend that every single person you meet has a sign around his or her neck that says, 'Make me feel important.' Not only will you succeed in sales, you will succeed in life.

Remember your past mistakes just long enough to profit by them.

I have my own style and don't really follow fashion, but I like leggings. They're easy to wear and can go with anything.

Nothing goes on forever; if one could only remember that.

With fame there is a crosswire between intensity and intimacy. You have decoy intimacy, but you are also very much alone.

Those who resolve to conquer or die, are rarely conquered.

I don't know what I believe. I think there's a belief system, I'm just not sure what it is.