If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. You can have the greatest coaches in the world, all the opportunities to play, and the greatest equipment, but if you don't have it inside, you're not going to make it. On the other hand, if you don't have any of those luxuries but you have heart and courage and the guts to go out there and grind it out, then you'll make it.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

I've had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.

I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.