Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.
Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
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 always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
