Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.