Madonna has total control over her life, and not many women have that

Life is not worth living if I cannot have pasta or bread again.

Tennis has to become everything to you if you're going to make it to the top. You have to live it.

I don't believe in playing hurt, in taking injections to cover the pain.

I used to pretend that I was Tom attacking Jerry, who was drawn on the ball

You have to want to play it all day, every day to get to the top.

That's the key to success, isn't it? It has to be fun.

I did realize more than ever, after the stabbing, that tennis is a business - a tough business.

It doesnt matter who is playing or how old they are. I just worry about what I can control. It doesnt give me more or less motivation.

Tennis is so competitive. I guess that's the way it has to be.

As you know, I was one of the original grunters. But Jimmy Connors used to grunt way before I was born. I never knew I was grunting, it was just part of my strokes.

Nature finds its peace in silence, forgiveness, and universal love.

Genetics do play a role in how you consciously or subconsciously manifest your true self.

Libraries are the latest fashion for the brain.

The books I have read were composed by generations of fathers and sons, mothers and daughters, teachers and disciples. I am the sum total of their experiences, and so are you.

My parents were kind enough to spend hours talking to me.

It was almost normal for people over thirty to be frightened of their own children

The future of this nation depends on the Christian training of our youth.

Your age doesn't define your maturity; your grades don't define your ability; and what people say about you doesn't define who you are.

Its always the minorities who arent a part of the mainstream who define what the limits... of the majority are going to be.

It's about risking everything. Putting your heart on the line, even when you don't know what's going to happen. It's risking having the person you love rip it out and stomp all over it in public.