Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

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.

Sometimes life touches one person with a bouquet and another with a thorn bush, But the first may find a wasp in the flowers, and the second may discover roses among the thorns.

As you improve yourself, those around you benefit and are, themselves, improved!

Ive been making music since I was 14, but for a while, I was afraid to perform.

Atheists express their rage against God although in their view He does not exist.

Hopefully I don't have to play for eight years but can go and relax somewhere and do something enjoyable while I'm still young.

The short story is the literature of the nomad.

Maybe I'm completely different from everyone else.

My feeling is that the beaches should belong to everybody. Nobody should be able to build anything. It causes erosion. It's a bad thing altogether.

To say that corrupt means corrupt the ends is to believe in the immaculate conception of ends and principles.

Alleviation of suffering is my fundamental principle.