You're always striving to play that perfect match.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

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.

Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

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

You pay a price for everything in life.

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.