Quotes About Independence

Obviously I need a coach, but it's not the main thing in my team. I can play good even without a coach.

The main thing for me was that I wanted to be able to decide when my international career would end after 10 years myself.

I am the mainstream.

I'm not a mainstream country artist, and I never will be.

I have learned that you can't be high-maintenance on the road. I've groomed myself to not be high-maintenance. You have to maintain and be a girl and not become a dude.

I don't believe the majority always knows what's best for everyone.

As my athletic career was coming to an end in 2007, I asked myself, do I want to work for somebody, or go out and make a difference?

I believe in allowing an audience the opportunity to make up their own mind.

Don't take advice. You have to make up your own mind what to do from the beginning.

I like to make up my own lines and dress myself and act like myself and no other characters.

I didn't associate playing tennis with making a living until I was maybe 18 or 19.

If you ask me what I should say to the girls who are making money, I think it's as normal as a guy making money.

I moved to L.A. when I was 17 and started making movies six months later.

I am very into making up my own rules.

Really, in a way, I took over the male role.

I made a decision when I was in school that I'd have a lot of male friends.

My mother had always been a working woman and so she would drop me to my mama's house everyday for the whole day since it was close by.

I manage to live the way I want to, and I've never had to worry about finding jobs.

I think the rest of the world would like to tell us how to manage our own environment. And I think that anybody in America can tell you that we're best to decide what America should do.

I don't represent anybody and I don't hold anything at such a high arc that I gotta manage by somebody's rule. I don't ever do good with rules.

I've learned you don't always listen to your agents and managers. Sometimes they know nothing.

I don't like having managers.

I wasn't the one managing my career back then, that was the problem - I was 14 years old.

As far as managing, I've been managing myself from the beginning, so if I don't start speaking up for myself, nobody will.