Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

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.

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!

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

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.

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

I think it's really important to have portion control. I don't believe in losing weight quickly.