I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn’t have a tennis tour.
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Don’t let anyone define you. You define yourself.
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
Our love one’s are never gone, they have just popped into another room.
Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.