I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

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.

I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.

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

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

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.