Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

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.

She was a dreamer and a schemer & one didnt dream and scheme without hope.

Close your lips in anger, open in admiration

Part of the reason that the government's fear mongering is succeeding is because so many people are so ignorant, that it is easier for government to frighten people in submission.

Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.

The key to No-Limit... is to put a man to a decision for all his chips.

I don't think that (U.S. President) George Bush...is a man of honor.

People think that everyone wears black in France; in fact they all wear grey.

I'll never have enough of you, never.

My hope is that countries like Morocco will have investment to create work, so people don't have to leave.