I hate to lose more than I like to win. I hate to see the happiness on their faces when they beat me!

Nothing's perfect along the way [in life], and you ride the ups and downs. It's how you come out of those and continue on that I guess really matters.

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

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?'

There is only one number one. It is a lonely spot but it has got the best view of all.

That's something a lot of athletes miss - a lot of them walk away too soon. They don't get everything out of their system. They have a lot of what-ifs when they're sitting around later in life. I don't have that. I got all that out of my system. I pushed it to the brink, I loved it, and when I walked away, I'd had enough.

Experience is a great advantage. The problem is that when you get the experience, you're too damned old to do anything about it.