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.

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

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.

It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

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