The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

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.

I wish you a joyful Christmas and a miraculous New Year.

No greater mistake can be made than to assume that newspapers are correct indices of public opinion.

One of the things I teach my children is that I have always invested in myself, and I have never stopped learning, never stopped growing.

There is scarcely an instance of a man who has made a fortune by speculation and kept it

Stock market risk is ok, but not for Social Security.

If you're not out front defining your vision, your opponent will spend gobs of money to define it for you.

The whole reason one wants to do lower budget films is because the lower the budget, the bigger the ideas, the bigger the themes, the more interesting the art.

The child has other powers than ours, and the creation he achieves is no small one; it is everything.

I figure if kids see a movie about 12-year-olds chopping each other up, they can probably see a movie where everyone keeps their clothes on and doesn't use foul language.

We need a free media, not just freedom of speech.