I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population -- and usually as homosexuals.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

Don't worry about what people say.

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.

Pressure is a privilege -- it only comes to those who earn it.

There is no life for girls in team sports past
Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I
thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.