My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

By the time I was 9, I was frequently asked to play exhibitions at grand openings, fund-raisers for charities, and other special events.

If you were going to die, I was going to die with you. I couldn't stop thinking it over and over as you screamed, as I tried to kill her: you were my mate my mate my mate.

For a while, my self-control and my power of reason quailed to uselessness.

No matter how hard we try to separate, and if eventually we finally separate, we are just fooling around thinking we had parted, yet our hearts dwells where we cowardly believed we had left.

Courage is telling our story, not being immune to criticism.

If there is life, then I believe we should do nothing to disturb that life. Mars then, belongs to the Martians, even if they are microbes.

Any time you have someone come up and say they love what you do and they get great joy from it is a very humbling experience.

A lion is not a lion is not a lion. As individuals, as mates, as members of a society, they're all very different.

When I were a young man, I used to play baseball and steal bases just like Jackie Robinson. If the empire would rule me out, I would get mad and hit the empire.

You meet the same people on the way down that you meet on the way up, but you're going the other way.

Any visitor to an historic country town or city quickly becomes aware in his or her peregrinations that the most attractive houses in the centre are invariably the offices of lawyers.