If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.

There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.

If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.

Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up quickly. And it's easy to become a statistic. And that's something I've always tried to avoid, and I've always said, hey - not that it won't be me, that, hey, it could be me.

Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.

As long as we're fit, we just have so much to give on the court.