“Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.”

A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Champions take responsibility.

I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.

You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.

I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.

It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

We are all given a gift of existence and of being sentient beings, and I think true happiness lies in love and compassion.

A mathematician’s reputation rests on the number of bad proofs he has given.

There are no two hours alike. Every hour is unique and the only one given at the moment, exclusive and endlessly precious.

The compassion that you see in the kindhearted is God’s compassion. He has given it to them to protect the helpless.

Things that are real are given and received in silence.

Muslims and non Muslims, this is what has given us the advantage.

If given a really great chance, I’m going to put it away every single time.

I couldn’t forget. I couldn’t break. She had the power to break me. No one had ever been given that power, ever.