It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

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.

Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.

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

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.

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.