You know growing up in Sweden meant we had a lot of rain when we played tennis. We were taught on clay courts but because of the weather, we had to go indoors a lot.

If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win.

You have to find it. No one else can find it for you.

My greatest point is my persistence. I never give up in a match.

He [Jimmy Connors] has one weakness. He can never say his opponent played well. That's why it feels good to beat him and that's why other players would rather beat him than any other player.

I have a great family, great kids. I have practically everything, you know? Sometimes I have to pinch myself. It's really true: Life starts at 50.

The ball is round, the game is long.

I wanted to win, even in practice.

On Rafael Nadal: Every point he plays is like match point. That's why he's the champion right now.

When I retired from tennis I wanted to do other things with my life.

It's tough when you're No. 1. You don't have any private life, you can't even walk anywhere. I think that was one reason why I lost my motivation to play tennis.

a major reason why we wake up each day is to know the real reasons why we wake up each day

You’re a princess. And princesses are never nervous. Princesses are brave and pretty and fearless.

A powerful idea communicates some of its strength to him who challenges it.

Why does it so often take a genius to see the obvious?

It's important to be able to be a girl and be a scientist and have neither of those things affect each other.

A man who fears ridicule will never go far, for good or ill: he remains on this side of this talents, and even if he has genius, he is doomed to mediocrity.

I mostly get takeout, I have to admit - I don't know if that's something to be ashamed of. I'm not much of a cook.

Men's minds tend to fear more keenly those things that are absent.

Let's put one lie to rest for all time: the lie that men are oppressed, too, by sexism-the lie that there can be such a thing as men's liberation groups.

Movies don't create psychos. Movies make psychos more creative.