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.

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

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

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.

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.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

The trouble with being number one in the world -- in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

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