1. “Tennis has given me soul.”
2. “Keeping a journal of what’s going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what’s important and what’s not.”
3. “Just go out there and do what you’ve got to do.”
4. “Losing still hurts, but that’s good. When it stops hurting, That’s when I stop playing.”
5. “I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.”
6. “Security used to be an inconvenience sometime but now it’s a necessity all the time.”
7. “You can’t live in the past, there’s nothing you can do about it.”
8. “I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.”
9. “What matters isn’t how well you play when you’re playing well. What matters is how well you play when you’re playing badly .”
10. “The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
11. “The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.”
12. “I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”
13. “The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.”
14. “Once you start believing yourself, anything is possible.”
15. “The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.”
16. “The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best but how good they are their worst.”
17. “Labels are for filing. Label are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
18. “Once you start believing yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.”
19. “I just try to concentrate on concentrating.”
20. “Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you’re needed by someone.”
21. “I’ve been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.”
22. “Whoever said, ‘It’s not whether you win or lose that counts,’ probably lost.”
23. “I’d have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn’t enjoy spending it.”
24. “Changes are made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they’re unfair to you.”
25. “I shouldn’t say I’m looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don’t know what normal is. This has been normal for me”
26. “I hit some great shots in my lifetime; now I hit a decent shot and I get a standing ovation.”
27. “When one man becomes more important than the country he’s supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.”
28. “Some players when they become No. 1 they put too much pressure on themselves.”
29. “There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.”
30. “I think retirement beats the heck out of life after death, that’s for sure.”
