Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

I was too young to take it all in. I was too young to even realize I was young. I was just living my life.

Make sure your daughter's goal is her goal, not your goal.

Even the finest sword plunged into salt water will eventually rust.

Forward is forward.

In many ways the rise of the state was the descent of the world from freedom to slavery

There are plenty of theories to listen to and follow but truth yearns to be discovered. When you find it, there is no doubt where to go.

If you don't see the book you want on the shelves, write it.

Laughing at our mistakes can lengthen our own life. Laughing at someone else's can shorten it.

I know [Umbridge] by reputation and I'm sure she's no Death Eater-" "She's foul enough to be one..." "Yes, but the world isn't split into good people and Death Eaters.

You can't really compare hells. But I suppose the hell of being strung out on another person's addictive behavior is its own special thing.

One thing about me, as far as my career is concerned, is that I'm very confident. I know I'm good.

It is defeat which educates us.