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.
Quotes to Explore
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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.
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I think the mental victory is worth it as much as a gold medal.
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Cinema reflects culture and there is no harm in adapting technology, but not at the cost of losing your originality.
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Winning the NFC championship affords you a chance at the next opportunity.
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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.
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Victory is always possible for the person who refuses to stop fighting.
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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.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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Winning teams have the least amount of distractions. They have a really tight group of people working towards the same common goal.
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Teach thy tongue to say 'I do not know', and thou shalt progress.
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Your work is first, learning is first, winning is everything because without it there is nothing.
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People see me because I'm winning my fights. That's how I want people seeing me.
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I'll tell you what divorce hasn't taught me. It didn't teach me not to get married again.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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As a young athlete, it was first about having fun; then it was about winning.
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The race may not always be to the swift nor the victory to the strong, but that's how you bet.
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Stealing home is one of the most sensational plays in baseball. If the run thus scored is the winning tally, the play is, of course, all the more thrilling. It is a play that requires a lot of quick thinking to bring about a successful completion. The chap who has slow moving feet and a slower moving brain had better never try to steal home.
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In education, we are striving not to teach youth to make a living, but to make a life.
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I traveled with the band for five years with Parkinson's.
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I'm totally in love with Jane Austen and have always been in love with Jane Austen. I did my dissertation at university on black people in eighteenth-century Britain - so I'd love to do a Jane Austen-esque film but with black people.
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One thing I tend to do is ask actors tons and tons of questions to try to get at what they're thinking but also to expose to them whatever box they've placed their characters in - to blow up that box so the journey can begin.
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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.
