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I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.

Venus Williams

I think I have a lot of room for improvement. My serve is okay, but I need to work on a lot of things: return, transition game, backhand.

Andy Roddick

For me, it is important to win titles and for that I need to work hard, stay healthy and be able to compete. The rest, I always say, it comes.

Rafael Nadal

People think I must have been so talented at an early age, but I don't know - was it talent or hard work? Who knows?

Monica Seles

Because society would rather we always wore a pretty face, women have been trained to cut off anger.

Nancy Friday

The past informs the present. Memory makes the map we carry, no matter how hard we try to erase it.

Murder in the Bastille

Beauty and ingenuity beat perfection hands down, every time.

Sister Mine

To me education is a leading out of what is already there in the pupil's soul.

The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Music did that to me, just like God was supposed to, because music seemed both magic and holy.

Velva Jean Learns to Drive

For some people, it's best for their mental health to know they have the gene for Huntington's and some time in the future they'll have a problem. But to other people, it would be a disaster.

Leroy Hood

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

Venus Williams

I loved Wimbledon and what it meant, but the surface felt uncomfortable. I just didn't like it, I was a hard-court guy, a Californian kid.

Pete Sampras

The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.

Rohan Bopanna

My days are spent wrangling children, chipping dried manure from boots, washing jeans, and frying calf nuts.

Ree Drummond

What I think I've been able to do well over the years is play with pain, play with problems, play in all sorts of conditions.

Roger Federer

I've always been aware that the image you patiently construct for an entire career can be ruined in a minute. It scares you a bit, but that's the way things are.

Roger Federer

I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.

Steffi Graf

I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.

Sloane Stephens

Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.

Tracy Austin

We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.

Tracy Austin

Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.

Tomas Berdych