Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

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.

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.

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

To live with Faith, eliminate Fear. Only one can exist in our Life at any point of time. -RVM

When you're completely free, you're also completely on your own.

No Santa Claus! Thank God he lives and he lives forever. A thousand years from now Virginia nay ten times ten thousand years from now he will continue to make glad the heart of childhood.

Life has no meaning. It doesn't need a meaning. A meaning is an arbitrary thought formulation that we affix to it because we are in the mood. Life is its own raison d'etre.

While I'm doing [writing], I don't feel it.I don't think that's a failing. I think it's just a feature. Like, a feature of oneself.

You have to start at the very bottom and you've got to do every job. I did that so I could understand what everybody does. I didn't become this huge producer overnight. It took many, many years.

I really believe that we all have the ability to come out of our story. But you have to tell your story first in order to come out of it.

I'd say that I think the most revolutionary act that you can commit in our society today is to be happy.

Life has no meaning except in terms of responsibility.

Now, my masters, happy man be his dole, say I; every man to his business.