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I am always training because I love it.

Fighting is very physical and extreme and you're very vulnerable. It's a very mental type of thing.

Fighting is my career, it's what I love to do, but I am taking offers and trying to expand because the more I expand myself, the more valuable I become to promoters.

Everybody is their own critic.

A lot of people enjoyed the film 'Haywire' and a lot of people have mixed feelings on it but regardless, a lot of people have said really wonderful things about it being my first experience, that the fighting they absolutely enjoyed. So I think I've gotten a lot more fans, actually.

War - the ordinary man's most convenient means of escaping from the ordinary.

The moment somebody says 'this is very risky' is the moment it becomes attractive to me.

The love story for me was the nature of the love and not the age of the lovers.

The best preparation for acting is life - observing life and people and observing yourself. All that becomes your library. So when you have to research a part, a scene or an emotion, you go into the library and get what you need.

No one in the whole movie ever asks anyone, Did you write this letter' Part of the reason is that no one wants to hear that it isn't for them. As soon as they read it, they want it to be theirs.

I love what I do and I think it shows. As my kids get older, they can see me as a mom who loves working.

I don't have slim children. I have hearty ones.

A lunch date is more fun than a dinner date; you're not tired. It's a secret that not a lot of other parents told me about.

You know, I'm confident before I go out and play a match that I know, you know, I've put in the work and like I feel confident that I am going to go out there and play well.

Yes, I made mistakes by rebelling, by acting out in confused ways.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

To win Grand Slams you have to be in the right frame of mind, the right physical shape.

This is the hardest thing I've ever done. The rehab has not gone as expected.

Tennis is what I do and is part of who I am.

People want to hear what I have to say and respect what I say.

Now a lot has changed and I can separate a lot of things.

It wasn't my tennis that made me lose, it was a lot of different things going on, high drama, high emotion.

It doesn't matter whether I qualify or wildcards.

I'm happy with what I've done but it's a challenge to try to win more.

I was an emotional basket case.

I mean, obviously, a lot of people know me around the world. Kids know me.

I mean, I feel like just a new person completely.

I just want to get to the level where I can say that that's my level, just try to play well, get up there.

I had an instinct before and maybe now I don't have that instinct as much as knowing what to do, what shots to hit, where to place the ball, things like that.

I do still have some of the experience from playing, but it's been so long since I've been out in those quarters, semis, finals, the important final matches, just against the top players.