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.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

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.

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.

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

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

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