This is one time I had some leverage. It was kind of exhilarating and empowering.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two. . . . That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

I call them the first generation of men of the women's movement. They have tears in their eyes, they're in their late 40s and 50s. 'I was really young when I watched your match, I have a daughter now. I cannot tell you how that changed my life and how I raise my daughter.