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In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.
I can think of matches I played where I played one or two points perfectly, and that gave me a thrill.
Everybody's talking a lot in my ear, so it's tough sometimes. I try to stay with my team in my bubble.
When you are winning too much, sometimes you think you should never lose again. I am learning to lose.
With everything else that would swirl around me when I got involved in it, tennis was my main concern.
The mental part of the game, being able to free up on the tennis court, is much easier said than done.
In the history of women's tennis the great players have come back from long absences with no problems.
It's like love. When you look too hard, you don't find it. When you let it happen naturally, it comes.
My friend, there is nothing so sexy as a woman who is angry. Perhaps when she is even throwing things.
I was making comebacks every single year. That makes it difficult mentally. It causes a lot of stress.
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
Myself and Cameron Lickle travel around North America in an RV and we conduct tennis clinics in clubs.
I think when you can beat Novak Djokovic in the final of a Masters tournament, you are going to be OK.
Right through school, I was a handy cricketer, a batsman and a left-arm spinner who bowled leg breaks.
There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.
I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.
I set some goals: little goals first and then the big ones. I stopped thinking about big achievements.
I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
The tennis wasn't really very much on my mind, so it wasn't like I was thinking about it all the time.
I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.
My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
I remember watching the Olympics at home as a kid. It was one my Dad's dreams to win an Olympic medal.
I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
The moment of enlightenment is when a person's dreams of possibilities become images of probabilities.
At one time, I was persuaded to want to make music, and people answered me that that was not possible.
I've always been lucky enough to just play tennis, so I never actually had a job when I was growing up.
It's true I always try to be as seductive as possible but I wouldn't be here if I couldn't play tennis.
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
Evel Knievel bet me $25,000 I couldn't ride a motorcycle 650 miles from Las Vegas to Twin Falls, Idaho.
To its great credit, Wimbledon has been a leader in bringing about change and improvement in the sport.
If I can't serve on grass, I can maybe help cut the grass, paint the lines and serve some strawberries.
Equality? They ought to play the women's final on opening day. Everybody knows who's going to be in it.
I had no idea I was going to be this tall. Had I known that, I honestly would have stuck to basketball.
You look at a guy like Michael Jordan: I can't believe there will be other basketball players like him.
There are so many roads you can take that will lead you the wrong way, that nobody will hear your name.
I'm just like every other girl who likes to shop, likes to look good, likes to spend time with friends.
People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
The Davis Cup should be home and away from the semi-finals as a minimum, I would say even the quarters.
For me, at the French Open, if I wasn't playing my match I was glued to CNN watching the events unfold.
Those born into poverty or on the margins of society require our extra support to realize their dreams.
I live where I would like to live. I live in Majorca, Spain, and I am not sure there are better places.
I let the evening unfold. I'm the sort of guy who likes to sit in the chair and look at the wine glass.
I love Bollywood as a viewer, but going in front of the camera and singing and dancing is not my thing.
I think in 1991, when Jimmy got to the semifinals, it was just incredible all of the people coming out.
The side of me you see when I'm having a laugh is not the one most conducive to playing my best tennis.
It's important to promote tennis in inner city schools so kids in those areas have access to the sport.
It's such an honor to do this job because I love it. And I get to work outside, and what can beat that?
You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.
You have to adjust to where you are but the French are all together - the guys and the women. It's good.