Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

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.

When wiggling through a holethe world looks different thanwhen scrubbed clean by the wiggleand looking back.

We wrote our names in the sandYou crossed mine out: I can't getback to the way I was.

I was famous from the age of 13, and after a while you become immune to it - in a good way. You look at positives and what you can do with it.

Please all, and you will please none.

Anyway, I collapsed in France in the middle of a tour. I hadn't been eating properly, I was getting very phobic about audiences, and I collapsed in pure fright.

Definitely River Phoenix is somebody that I thought, "This guy is very cool." I wanted to be like him when I was a kid.

I got a waterbed, but my husband stocked it with trout.

I don't have any training in dance. I can convince an audience that I know how to dance because I'm a convincing actor.

Society is a sort of organism on the growth of which conscious efforts can exercise little effect.

A lot of hip-hop artists wear fur, and they think it's a status symbol. That doesn't register for me; I just see dead animals.