You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a 'Cinderella' story for me.

When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to your emotions after one loss, you're liable to have three or four in a row.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Competitive toughness is an acquired skill and not an inherited gift.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

The only faithful tradition is change.

Too many questions can cripple imagination, for how can you apply logical questions to something that is not real?

Grace is a power that comes in and transforms a moment into something better

Distinguishing the signal from the noise requires both scientific knowledge and self-knowledge.

You had to see yourself poor and think of yourself as being poor, or you never would have been poor.

I was a little, skinny, runt kid, and I decided that bowling was what I was going to do in life.

You're not always going to be at your best, but it better be the best you've got that day.

I have fits of melancholia when I watch the news, but we all do, don't we?

It's much better to have your arguments dismissed because you might be joking than to have your arguments dismissed because you're not telling the truth.

Typographical laziness was slowly destroying our culture, according to Lexa and her pals. Inexactitude was death.