It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.

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.

An editor - a person employed on a newspaper whose business it is to separate the wheat from the chaff and to see that the chaff is printed.

It's clear why they only served bread and wine at the Last Supper. It was a potluck . . . organized by men.

I'm so sorry for you; your lives have been so easy. You can't play great music unless your heart's been broken.

I don't think I've ever been an agnostic. I've always thought there's a superior power, that this is not the real world and that there's a world to come.

Peace for the whole world begins with a smile in your own heart.

The tea is ice-cold, the room grows colder and colder, but I grow warmer and warmer.

I believe that we are fundamentally the same and have the same basic potential.

I feel like a serious revolution needs to take place in order for human beings to evolve in a way where we can truly exist as a society.

I have always had an attorney on retainer, and now I believe I will have to put him to work.

You might be [outshining me in many ways]. But if we get on a treadmill, there are two things: you're getting off first or I'm going to die. It's that simple, right?