Sports are a microcosm of society.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

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

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

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

I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.

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.