When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

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.

That’s it. Keep that edge. Fight like there’s no tomorrow.

I think of birth as the search for a larger apartment.

Recent history is the record of one vast conspiracy to impose one level of mechanical consciousness on mankind.

Tidiness makes me think of held breath, of suspended animation.

In the chapel you prayed to be a saint and now I will make you a god.

A man has only one escape from his old self: to see a different self in the mirror of some woman's eyes.

Violence is the fear to other's ideals.

I feel like Aaron brings out the best in me

When Steve Carlton and I die, we're gonna be burried 60'6" apart.

Life without you is like a broken pencil, there's no point.