The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.

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.

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

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.