Serena Williams Quotes

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

Serena Williams

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• Victory
• Teach
• Losing

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• Winning is great, but being able to finish my last Olympic Games on American soil was very important. Even though I was injured, I didn't let my psyche get the best of me and cause me to doubt myself, so I was willing to pull every muscle in my body in '96 in order to get the job done and I came away with the bronze medal.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
  • Great
  • Important
  • Done

• I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.

  

  Cameron van der Burgh
  • Think
  • Gold
  • Victory

• Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.

  

  Jackie Chan
  • Culture
  • Technology
  • Losing

• Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.

  

  Dan Quinn
  • Opportunity
  • Winning
  • Chance

• Through everything I've gone through- and I've been everywhere, at the top of the world, in jail, hung over drunk - I never gave up my dream of winning a gold medal in the Olympics.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Up
  • World
  • Dream

• Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Stop
  • Fighting
  • Victory

• It's real nice and exciting for me to break the records, but it's more exciting for me to be on a winning team.

  

  Dan Marino
  • Me
  • Nice
  • Winning

• For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.

  

  Quintilian
  • Mind
  • Teach
  • Before

• Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.

  

  Larry Dixon
  • People
  • Winning
  • Goal

• Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.

  

  Maimonides
  • Know
  • Progress
  • Teach

• Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.

  

  Orson Scott Card
  • Work
  • Learning
  • Winning

• People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.

  

  Rafael dos Anjos
  • People
  • Want
  • Me

• I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.

  

  Salman Rushdie
  • Me
  • Teach
  • Divorce

• I'm a novelist, editor, short story writer. I also teach, and I freelance sometimes as an arts consultant. Most of my books have been published by Warner Books, now known as Grand Central Books.

  

  Nalo Hopkinson
  • Story
  • Teach
  • Short

• I've only kept one award in my whole life, and it's the coolest thing ever. Mizuno gave me a samurai sword for winning the Cy Young. It's awesome.

  

  Zack Greinke
  • Life
  • Me
  • Winning

• When you're on the victory podium, you're a queen, but when you come down from it, you're nobody. You cannot be too proud of yourself.

  

  Yana Kudryavtseva
  • Proud
  • Yourself
  • Victory

• As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.

  

  Dan O'Brien
  • Fun
  • Winning
  • Athlete

• The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.

  

  Damon Runyon
  • May
  • Strong
  • Victory

• Most of my issues that mankind sets out to settle, it never does settle… The dispute fades into the past unsolved, though perhaps it may be renewed as history and fought over again. It disappears because it is replaced by some compromise that, although not wholly acceptable to either side, offers a tolerable substitute for victory…

  

  Learned Hand
  • May
  • History
  • Past

• If you meet a girl, you meet a girl. It's normal, so if you exchange numbers, whatevs, it's cool.

  

  Zayn Malik One Direction
  • Girl
  • Cool
  • Numbers

• The flip side of humiliation is pride.

  

  Gary Weiss
  • Pride
  • Side
  • Humiliation

• I want each and every West Virginian to have bragging rights. I want to stop playing defense and start playing offense. So, together, let us grab the reins of history.

  

  Joe Manchin
  • Together
  • History
  • Stop

• I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.

  

  Carine Roitfeld
  • Family
  • Friends
  • Working

• I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

  

  Serena Williams
  • Winning
  • Victory
  • Teach