It's only when it comes to crunch time that people's true character comes out.

She [Monica Seles] has so much control of the racket with those double-handed wrists.

Chris Lloyd came out of the dressing room like a pistol.

Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.

Tennis is a fine balance between determination and tiredness.

I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. That's the whole incentive.

It's difficult for most people to imagine the creative process in tennis. Seemingly it's just an athletic matter of hitting the ball consistently well within the boundaries of the court. That analysis is just as specious as thinking that the difficulty in portraying King Lear on stage is learning all the lines.

At the end I couldn't hear what the Queen was saying to me. But it was just great to see her lips moving.

Winners aren't popular, losers often are.

When I am playing well I think I play such boring tennis.

I don't make friends with the girls I'm playing against. It would be too painful to beat them.

Ann's got to take her nerve by the horns.