It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.

Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

I never even heard her voice."And after a while:"It is a strange grief."Softly:"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.

People always seem to band together in accordance to a principle that has nothing to do with love, a principle that releases them from personal responsibility. (p. 81)

Sight is seeing with the eyes

After the brain surgery, I started the hard process of recovery.

A genius is one who shoots at something no one else can see-and hits it.

Even after such milestones as Kathryn Bigelow winning an Oscar, there still seem to be few women in leadership roles.

I am grateful for the opportunities I have been given to participate in that work as a representative of my country, Canada, whose people have, I think, shown their devotion to peace.

Now it may seem so far from where we all are It's something we can't neglect It's something I can't neglect Now won't you give some bread to get the starving fed

The only place I considered home was the boarding school, in Yorkshire, my parents sent me to.

Now all the knowledge and wisdom that is in creatures, whether angels or men, is nothing else but a participation of that one eternal, immutable and increased wisdom of God.