Chris evert

When you're a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of...

Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

I always looked ahead.

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Losing hurts me.