I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.

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

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.