Tennis was always there for me, which was lucky. I would go play baseball, basketball, football, hang with my brother, do whatever, and at the end of the day I'd come back and say, 'Hey, Mom, would you hit 15 minutes worth of balls with me?'

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

I never lost a tennis match, I just ran out of time

Nothing is like being out there and playing and performing and winning - nothing. But to have an interest in the player? The nerves and everything that goes with it? Seeing what he's learned and how he's done it? That's the second best thing to playing. I think.

I don't go out there to love my enemy. I go out there to squash him.

I hate to lose more than I love to win.

When you're hot, anything can happen.