Tennis Player

Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.

I just wanted to play tennis. It wasn't a job. It was an ambition. I knew I could make money at it. I was 18 - old enough to think I could do it, young enough not to consider the consequences.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

Gender is irrelevant. Certainly the tennis ball doesn't know what the gender was of the tennis coach.

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

Just go out there and do what you have to do.

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

I'm 58 years old. I got married for the first time - it's about time, right? Growing up as a gay woman, you just don't ever think about that, and then I thought, about 10 years ago, 'You know, I think within 10 years gay marriage will be legal.' And here we are, 10 years later, making it legal.

I didn't realize until I was doing commentary what a gladiator-like competition tennis is - other than no one dies. The crowd is waiting for the players to come, and they walk through the tunnel, and they get on the court, and they get out their rackets, their weapons, and now they start.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

I know propaganda when I see it, and I can speak with authority on it.

Players are saying, 'I don't have to have a coach who has only played a little bit. Instead, I can have somebody who won something'.

The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.

Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.

Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.