Character is the virtue of hard times.
When you travel so many weeks a year, it's always nice to have a home-cooked meal.
Women's tennis is getting faster and the girls are getting more athletic, so I need to push myself to become a better athlete. I think 2013 showed me, like a few other years how important being healthy is and how I must listen to my body. During this off season I have been a little smarter on how I train and how I treat my body.
I'm just a very tough person when I go on the court, and I really don't want to lose.
I had so many outs in my career. I could have said, 'I don't need this. I have money; I have fame; I have victories; I have Grand Slams. ' But when your love for something is bigger than all those things, you continue to keep getting up in the morning when it's freezing outside, when you know that it can be the most difficult day, when nothing is working, when you feel like the belief sometimes isn't there from the outside world, and you seem so small. But you can achieve great things when you don't listen to all those things.
If everything was going smoothly you would never build character.
I look forward to the challenges.
'She Wolf,' by Shakira, makes you want to let go of your inhibitions and jam.
Fundamentally, I have no idea how the world works, though I am trying to figure it out.
The Black Lives Matter movement, the various Occupy movements in Spain and the rest of Europe, in this country, and elsewhere serve as an example of what can be done, and how strong the voices for positive change and truly democratic progress can be.
Faith is my motivation to win.