“I don't need to come back to Wimbledon every year because I can't live without it. I'd be totally cool without tennis.”

“I did all the right things in so many tournaments. But like I said, sometimes in sports it just goes the other way. Maybe you've already won so much that it evens it out a bit sometimes. I don't know.”

“The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, y...”

“You always want to win. That is why you play tennis, because you love the sport and try to be the best you can at it.”

“I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.”

“To handle that stardom, the red carpets, the photo shoots, people all of a sudden recognizing you and following you in everyday life, it's a bit weird. It's strange, and it can have funny effects o...”

“It is better to be hated for what you are than to be loved for what you are not.”

“If I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drownedif I am going to be drowned, why, in the name of the seven mad gods who rule the sea, was I allowed to come thus far and contemplate sand and t...”

“I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward one another. As basic as that is, for me it's also tonic and ...”

“I am the perfect version of me.”

“But if you tame me, then weshall need each other. To me, you will be unique in all the world. To you, Ishall be unique in all the world.”

“I don't want the world to keep turning without me on it.”

“I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.”

“I used to play a lot of racket sports, tennis and squash.”

“Tennis was a white, upper-class sport, and I wanted it to be treated like other sports were.”