"Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there."
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"Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on."
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"'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces."
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"When youre on top, youre on top."
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"Whoever is across the net, I want to win. Whoever that person is, that's the day I want to win."
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"Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me."
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"I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts."
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"Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together."
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"I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again."
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"I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'"
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"A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win."
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"I am someone who likes to stay positive."
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"You learn so much from your parents. We grew up in a home where we were definitely taught to be confident. I definitely give me parents a lot of credit."
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"I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line."
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"Anything which draws attention to me because I am so attractive."
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"When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit."
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"I have a lot of dreams, and most of them come true these days."
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"Winning once is never anyone's dream. We all want to keep winning no matter what it is, or if we retire, we all still are striving toward something, probably most of us are."
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"We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?"
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"My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free."
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