“I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.”

I’ve had to learn to fight all my life – got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I’m still learning to love myself.

Growing up I wasn’t the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

I love tennis more than designing because it’s actually easier and I don’t get nearly as nervous.

You can’t underestimate anyone.

My dad is the nicest guy you’ll ever meet, and the easiest going.

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.

It’s me, and I love me. I learned to love me. I’ve been like this my whole life, and I embrace me. I love how I look. I love that I’m a full woman and I’m strong and I’m powerful and I’m beautiful at the same time. There’s nothing wrong with that.

If I’m winning, I have to act like I’m not bored. If it’s A tough match, I have to act like I’m having A good time. I’m a drama queen.

If I have a daughter and she plays tennis, and I have a son who plays tennis, I wouldn’t say that my son deserves more money because he’s a man. I would say they deserve the same amount of money.

I’m a high-performance athlete: I’m running, I’m sprinting, I’m sliding, I’m doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.

There’s one thing I’m really good at, and that’s hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I’m excellent.

Family’s first, and that’s what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

I think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there’s much, much more I can do.

I’m an unbelievable designer.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

We are all born to die – the difference is the intensity with which we choose to live.

He not busy being born is busy dying.

Choices will continually be necessary and — let us not forget — possible. Obedience to God is always possible. It is a deadly error to fall into the notion that when feelings are extremely strong we can do nothing but act on them.

I felt suicidal. I couldn’t stop crying. I remember thinking, wouldn’t it be great if the car crashed and I died?

Let us live in such a way as not to be afraid to die.

There is nothing waste, nothing sterile, nothing dead in the universe; no chaos, no confusions, save in appearance.

Charity is the soul of faith, makes it alive; without love, faith dies.

In my experience, depth of work consists of two components. The first is recklessness; the second is discipline.