Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

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.

But he'll never be fully recognised, because Scots literature these days is all about complaining and moaning and being injured in one's soul.

I know hate is a strong word and everything, but its okay: we're teenagers.

The revery alone will do If bees are few.

I didn't know the word no, because I wanted to please everybody all the time. Every kid does

Put in an honest day's work. It is the building block of a spiritual life.

I really like The Vamps. Im friends with a couple of the guys from the band, so thats fun.

I wondered – would a bullet through my temple actually kill me or just leave a really big mess for me to clean up?

Such a blush In the midst of brown was born, Like red poppies grown with corn.

As full of spirit as the month of May, and as gorgeous as the sun in Midsummer.