My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

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.

Obstacles are real, but we must determine to succeed in life no matter how big and many they are.

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports.

If we could give every individual the right amount of nourishment and exercise, not too little and not too much, we would have found the safest way to health.

When you hang around a lot of comedians long enough, you realize there's a certain gene, in every comedian. It's why we get hyper-analytical about things.

I don't need drugs. Life is already tragic enough.

The death I should prefer would be to break my neck off the back of a good horse at a full gallop on a fine day.

I'm my own doctor. I have a group of people who call me up on a weekly basis. I'm a 'doctor' without a license.

A prompt, generous letter of thanks can seal a commitment which otherwise might disappear when the going gets rough.

What is surprising is not that oppression should make its appearance only after higher forms of economy have been reached, but that it should always accompany them.