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.

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

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

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.