I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

My mom and dad met at UCLA when he as a captain in the Air Force and she was in her junior year.

My sister and I are opposites in many ways. She is six feet tall, while I'm five feet four.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

My mind started wandering. I started playing carefully, instead of playing the way that had gotten me to that point. I had to force myself to keep driving the ball.

When I was 11, I won my first nationals at Savannah, defeating Kelly Henry in the finals.

Mary Joe Fernandez rarely has a bad loss. She never tries for stupid shots.

I started tennis around age 2.

Pam has always been my glamorous big sister - 13 years older than I. She played on the women's circuit for nine years and came home to tell me stories of France, Japan.

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

I began playing in the Pacific Coast Indoor Tennis Championships.

Winning that first game was so important; my mother always said that the first game of the second set was the chance to keep it going if you were ahead or change things if you were behind.

I won the Wimbledon mixed doubles title in 1980.

The prize money for first place was $2,800, but I didn't take it because I was still an amateur.

From one match to the next, I kept on winning.

I didn't want to just rally at the baseline, even though that happened a lot.

My brother Jeff is now my agent at Advantage International in Washington, D.C.

I was planning to remain an amateur for a while.

I had gone to the bookstore, and while I hadn't bought any books on how to write a screenplay, I'd bought a couple of scripts so I could see how the formatting works. I just needed to know how a Hollywood screenplay looked on the page, which was something I was totally unfamiliar with.

I think it would collapse my heart if I was super famous. I don't have the nerve for it, I'm too anxious. I don't know how you're not obsessed with how people perceive you, because they're real people, you know? You can convince yourself that they don't really know you, and that's true, but how can it not hurt your feelings?

ThinThread was not the program of record of my predecessor, Ken Minihan, OK. I did not make ThinThread the program of record while I was director. After I left in 2005, Keith Alexander also chose not to make ThinThread the program of record.

Better still - your history has shown how powerful a moral catharsis expressed through popular resistance to injustice can sometimes be; I have in mind the grassroots opposition to the Vietnam War.

Millions of us, myself included, go back generations in this country, with ancestors who put in the painstaking work to become citizens. So we don't like the notion that anyone might get a free pass to American citizenship.

I was a very strange child.

Freedom is never given; it is won.

As far as practicing is concerned, I usually try to do one to two hours a day. It isn't good to practice too much, or your playing becomes too mechanical.

Rest until you feel like playing, then play until you feel like resting, period. Never do anything else.

When albums gave way to CDs, people re-discovered their collection through their CDs.

Everyone who likes my books is like me in some way.

To rally every black sheep is my goal.

The money that goes into Social Security is not the government's money. it's your money. You paid for it.

For years, Judaism has been a sort of product put on the religious shelf, and on holidays, we would take it off the shelf and let seculars play with it for a bit. Now, Judaism is going back to being something that more closely touches everyone.

A woman is a citizen who works for Mexico. We must not treat her differently from a man, except to honor her more.

That's the thing about inner beauty: Unlike Physical beauty, which grabs the spotlight for itself, inner beauty shines on everyone, catching them, holding then in its embrace, making them more beautiful too.

I can write with absolutely perfect penmanship with my feet. If I broke both my arms, I could still write a girl a love letter using just my toes.

The ease with which barley may be substituted directly for wheat in human food and its usefulness to replace wheat milling by-products as feed in the production of the milk supply render its abundant production important.

I'm also working on a track for Howard Hewett, and a theme for a new NPR show.

There are certainly a lot of things that still need to change when it comes to women in the workforce.

Oftentimes, when constituencies or sectors of opinion are distinct, when they are confronted with a situation where they're going to have to make a serious compromise, they react very negatively publicly, but they also recognize when they step back that this is right.

Anger will always stand in the way of your dreams. Don't let anyone take your dreams.

Hard work spotlights the character of people some turn up their sleeves some turn up their noses and some dont turn up at all.

We as military spouses don't want special treatment, we want fair treatment.