“Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.”

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.

I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man…God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I’ll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.

Tennis is like marrying for money. Love means nothing.

I wasn’t any good at playing tennis.

When you play sports like tennis, you’re alone, and that’s a good school for life, but it’s also a good school for life to bring your best and make those around you better, too – helping others in difficult moments.

I love to play tennis and golf, listen to music, watch baseball and root for the Redskins.

I play tennis non-obsessively. I seem to beat people I play a lot or half the time, so I guess I gravitate to people who are as bad as I am.

The choreographic process is exhausting. It happens on one’s feet after hours of work, and the energy required is roughly the equivalent of writing a novel and winning a tennis match simultaneously.

I guess my goal is to design my own walker. The walkers with the big tennis balls, no one wants to use those. I would rather crawl down the street in New York City than use those.

When you play competitive tennis you are competing against someone else and you have to win. Playing music I didn’t have to win I had to become better within myself.