You always see people coming back to the sport, and I've always thought, 'Gosh, when you're done playing, wouldn't you just want to stay at home?

Nobody wants to go through divorce, especially when there's young children involved.

I'm proud of myself. I'm a relieved, happy girl.

I don't think I should be underestimated.

You work your whole life to try to be the best you can, even if it's for only one day or one week.

I couldn't imagine being from a country where all the pressure is on a particular player.

I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.

We get criticized for showing no personality, and then we get penalized when we do.

I think I'm pretty down to earth.

I did everything I could except win. I feel fine. I just played bad at a big time.

[On a strained relationship between a tennis champion and her mother:] There comes a time when it's probably not cool for your mom to be your best friend.

The good qualities in our soul are most successfully and forcefully awakened by the power of art. Just as science is the intellect of the world, art is its soul.

How could we have revived the soul without music?

I've got a great support group, real and true friends and I'm moving forward with my life. I was sad and wanted to make things work but I'm completely fine now. I'm moving on.

What matters in life is not what happens to you but what you remember and how you remember it.

Health is the greatest possession.

Whatever is graceful is virtuous, and whatever is virtuous is graceful.

Republicans seems to me to be chiefly concerned with holding on to what they have: in society, it's position, or respectability, or what you will; in business, of course, it's profit.

When I was younger and studying acting, I never ever saw myself in the sitcom world; it was drama that really turned me on and still does.

I love Yves Saint Laurent and Giambattista Valli and Givenchy and I get given quite a lot, but perhaps nothing is as wonderful as the white fake leather trench coat I got when I was 15.

That was always my hope that that is exactly what I would do. It was always part of the dream of this story - to write the novel and then direct the movie.