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 they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

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.

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

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

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.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.