I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

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

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.