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.

Startups on the inside are always badly broken.

The Bible remained for me a book of books still divine but divine in the sense that all great books are divine which teach men how to live righteously.

Animations are really powerful - it's not just entertainment, it's a very cunning way to get good ideas across.

The cat does not offer services. The cat offers itself. Of course he wants care and shelter. You dont buy love for nothing. Like all pure creatures cats are practical.

We have the incredible privilege of serving in the highest offices in the state. We must prove ourselves worthy of our fellow citizens' faith. We must be trusted to always place the public's good above our own and to always choose fairness over favoritism.

I also hang the pictures low rather than high, and particularly in the case of the largest ones, often as close to the floor as is feasible, for that is the way they are painted.

In any moment of decision the best thing you can do is the right thing the next best thing is the wrong thing and the worst thing you can do is nothing.

The reality is I meet a lot of actresses. They're wonderful, beautiful ladies. It's pretty hard to stay away from them. You know, there's worse problems to have.

The harder they hit us the louder we become kind of like the skin on a drum.

The first time I try anything is invariably not very successful. I tend to grow slowly, but solidly.

If you practice patience, punctuality, sincerity and care, you'll have a better appreciation of the world.

Sometimes when you finish a book, you don't know quite what you've got.

Hospitals are about healing.

I was always exploring relationships between art and science.

Although the Chinese had used opium as a medicine, there was no widespread addiction before the British arrived.

The other countries did not share the same concern the United States had in the early '90's - that North Korea actually had an ongoing nuclear weapons program.

I live in L.A., where every coffee shop is filled with scriptwriters, producers and directors.