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

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.

.I’m gettin’ it now, today. I don’t even know where I’m gonna be twenty years from now, so I’m just gonna keep on rockin’, cause if I start saving up bits and pieces of me.

You get to love your pretense…It’s true, we’re locked in an image, an act…

Honey, if you’ve had your eye on a piece of talent and that chick down the road has been getting all the action, then you know what you gotta do… Try A Little Bit Harder.

With ‘New Rose Hotel,’ I knew that I was getting paid a $100,000 fee to write, produce, and direct, and that’s all I was going to get.

The getting out of doors is the greatest part of the journey.

Don’t go getting all shy on me now, Lana,” he drawled, squeezing my sides with his hands

Soul brother number 1+1 Gettin’ fed like where drugs and guns come from

Trying to guess what the (mass) audience wants and then trying to satisfy that is usually a bad recipe for getting something good.