It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.