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I suppose being fierce is a very good thing, and a very cool thing. But more than fierce, I think I'm a strong person and a strong individual. And that's what I take with me every day.

I never underestimate my opponent, but I never underestimate my talents.

My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.

If I have to be fierce, I'll be fierce.

I was trained to be loud, passionate, direct. I didn't realize for the longest time I was intimidating.

The serve, I was too young and too small and... not enough powerful to have a good serve when I was young, so my forehand was always my signature shot. So I used to always run around my backhand, you know, use my forehand as much as I could, and so that's why I think it's my strength also today, you know.

I think people have always liked in me the combination of being the underdog because I'm a tiny woman but I have enormous authority in myself.

I'm not particularly tall, strong, fast, or aggressive.

Normally, I could hit hard enough, as anyone who studied my fights might have known. But the impression was that I was essentially defensive, the very reverse of a killer, the prize fighter who read books, even Shakespeare.