There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

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.

Virtue - to be good and just -Every heart, when sifted well, Is a clot of warmer dust, Mix'd with cunning sparks of hell.- The Vision of Sin

All knowledge of cultural reality, as may be seen, is always knowledge from particular points of view.

I was a first time bride at 44. I had never even lived with anybody. And after running my own business for many years, I knew how to be the boss - but I had no idea how to be a good partner.

We must seek to be firmly rooted and converted to the gospel of Jesus Christ.

Take heed of winde that comes in at a hole, and a reconciled Enemy.

I like the part where you walk up on the stage and you're up there for the show. I like that part.

I think I've advanced my views with compassion and tolerance.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

In literature as in life, to conform to anything is to knuckle under to your inferiors.

In the world there is nothing more submissive and weak than water. Yet for attacking that which is hard and strong nothing can surpass it.