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

I always looked ahead.

If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

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.

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

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

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

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

Losing hurts me.

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

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.

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.

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

You pay a price for everything in life.

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

If youre a champion you have to have it in your heart.

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

I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean fresh air is great. Plus it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.

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

Today it is evident that we have two political parties: the Tax and Spenders and the No-Tax and Spenders. Neither party is fiscally conservative. Is there no room at the inn for an honest conservative? A conservative who makes the case for smaller government on its merits and not just as the fallback option when fiscal bankruptcy threatens?

I'm not really a sequel guy. I did 'Angels & Demons' after 'The Da Vinci Code,' because I like working with Hanks, and I felt it was a really different sort of world that we were visiting. That was, of itself, interesting.

Civility is not simply about manners.

Yeah, even a black comedy. Where it's a little eerie. I'd love to do that. But there are about three really fabulous ones on the air now and I don't know if I can do any better than that. I'd like to sort of forge new ground.

I like to have my breakfast in bed, and I use that time to watch the recorded shows on my TiVo. I seldom watch shows in real time - I'm always at work.

I'm intensely private. I don't like giving interviews.

I fantasise about what the future could be in terms of aesthetic and psychology. It's the most difficult thing to do because you have to start from the past - your favourite architect, your favourite song - you take it all with you.

At the same time, one of the things I noticed was that the moment there was any kind of audio attached to virtual reality, it really improved the experience, even though the audio didn't feel like a sound engineer or composer had been anywhere near it.

Sometimes a famous subject may even outlive his own obituary writer.

You don't want flame to hit your food. Flame is bad. Flame does nasty things to food. It makes soot and it makes deposits of various chemicals that are not too good for us. The last thing you really want to see licking at your food while it's on a grill is an actual flame.

The Weeknd is the dopeness.

The Left masks its distaste for the Bible's condemnation of homosexuality in a straw man argument that Bible believers are violent bigots. They are not. Citing the Bible doesn't make you a bigot against human beings - it makes you a bigot against sin, which is a good thing.

For reasons we don't have to get into, climate change has become an incredibly polarized issue in the United States. I think that is sad. My own personal view is that we're in a planetary emergency such has not been seen in 600,000 years.

We continue to shape our personality all our life. If we knew ourselves perfectly, we should die.

I think at times I read too much of my own press. I wish I was better at taking in how great my life is, but that's surprisingly elusive. I tend to be very hard on myself and insecure about failing no matter what happens.

I tend to always love material with flawed protagonists and morally ambiguous people.

I've committed myself to serve my constituents in South Shields and I have committed myself to British politics.