Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

We're sisters, we're roommates, we're all that.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

Selfish leadership is okay with the failure of the successor so as to ensure that any form of praise will continue to be heaped on them

Better farPursue a frivolous trade by serious means, Than a sublime art frivolously.

And even as I'm kissing him and kissing him and kissing him, I wish I were kissing him, wanting more, more, more, more, like I can't get enough, never will be able to get enough.

Be nice to nerds, they'll probably be your boss one day.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

Nothing is more beautiful than a guitar, except, possibly two.

Religion is an affront to liberalism because it dares suggest it's not all about you.

I wonder why progress looks so much like destruction.

Sometimes, if things are not going so well, I don’t cry. I say maybe it’s meant to be.

I do for one full hour non-stop of 2,000 sit ups and then 6 sets of leg rise.