If you stop at general math, you're only going to make general math money.
It's pretty hard being a tennis player and Mother Theresa at the same time and that's just the way it is.
Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body.
I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, 'I don't need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. ' But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it's freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn't there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don't listen to all those things.
If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
I look forward to the challenges.
Irony gives us, at little expense, the impression that we are experienced psychologists.
There is nothing in the world common to man, that man cannot do.
I'm not going to talk about my private life with a total stranger, unless I feel like I need to. Why would I? I don't.
You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.