I always had a powerful serve. It's one of the best in women's tennis. It's very good to have a weapon like that.

The woman's tour is very tough for all of the players.

I think players changing coaches is normal.

It's always tough when you're fighting with your husband on the court.

I don't ever want to be a sentimentalist. I prefer to be a realist. I'm not a romantic really.

Marriage requires a special talent, like acting. Monogamy requires genius.

I was born at home in rural Kentucky, in 1942, in a house that my father Howard had built. He did most of the construction himself and built it on land that his father had given him when he married my mother Faye.

You don't stay married for thirty-nine years because of sex or even because of love, but because your partner is a real friend to you, because they respect and regard you.