It's not easy to date when you're hefty. Besides I like feeling thin because it makes me feel amorous.
As a teenager I had no idea that I had the potential to win an Olympic gold medal and my athletic career developed only by lucky circumstances.
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.
Ian Gillan, Roger Glover and I wanted to be a hard rock band - we wanted to play rock and roll only.
The journey has definitely not been easy, but all the sacrifice has paid off very well in terms of my performance on-court.
There's a new television generation coming in every five or 10 years, and the classic stories stand up to being redone.
I still take it seriously, but once I go out there I think I've got more relaxed and I think it shows.
I don't listen well at all. I don't take direction well at all. I have to admit that is my main fault.
Venus hasn't been to the semis for a couple of years in a Grand Slam - she's been coming back from injury.
We've gotta give Richard Williams a lot of credit - to give us two number one champions is a phenomenal feat.
Whoever has played tennis knows the court is pretty big and you always have space to put the ball in.
We have a tough schedule this summer, so I have to plan my schedule wisely if I want to be able to last throughout the season.
I am happy to have played a match and break the rhythm of daily training.
Operas elucidate, in a way sometimes absent in other theatrical productions, the very human fact that in every hero, there is a thread of duplicity. In every villain, there is another side to consider: We don't have to like him or her, but we are com...
I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of eve...
One year, I was a patron of a new opera. It was, to put it kindly, unpleasant to the ear. The friends I went with hated it. Keeping quiet about my contribution, I was outed when one of them, reading the program at the restaurant during dinner, saw my...
When I was really little, I listened to Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, Barbara Mandrel, Crystal Gayle, Kenny Rogers, Willie Nelson, and Patsy Cline.
I was named after my two uncles. Roger Lee and Richard Allen. They simply changed the spelling to Leigh-Allyn to make it more feminine.
I did not grow up with people, you know, pounding in my head, 'This is what you've got to do, this is what you're going to do.'
I TiVo 'CSI,' 'CSI: Miami,' 'Grey's Anatomy,' 'Young and The Restless' - my husband hates that one - and that's pretty much it.
All legislative experiments in the way of making forcible distribution of the wealth produced in any country have failed.
