My parents paid me small amounts for cleaning my room or cleaning the dishes and stuff, but I never really had a real job before I started on my professional tennis career.

It's very expensive to be a professional tennis player with all the travel and the flights and the hotels and everything.

There are periods when you feel really good. You feel the ball is bigger. The court is larger. You feel like you can't miss. And then there are periods when you feel, 'OK, I'm not feeling great.' But I still need to try to find a way to win.

If you think negatively, it's hard to get out of tense moments.

We target people who understand that relationships are the lifeline of a small company.

There's nothing unique about me as a parent. I am a parent. My kids are kids. We do the best we can do.

I think of some of my friends who have passed to the spirit world but are who here with me when I go to events and when I walk in my own community. My sisters, Ingred, my sister Marsha, and my sister Nielock. All cofounders of the Indigenous Women's Network with me. All long time women activists in the native community.

Loyalty is one of the qualities in a friend that I value most.