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.
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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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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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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'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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The holy march on which the Arab nation insists, will carry us forward from one victory to another ... the flag of freedom which flies over Baghdad today will fly over Amman and Riyadh. Yes, the flag of freedom which flies over Cairo, Damascus, and Baghdad today will fly over the rest of the Middle East
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Some people in Hollywood think of me as a model for dramatic midlife transitions: suburban housewife to Emmy-winning actress. But I never plotted a master plan for following my dreams.
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The big secret to winning elections is to get more votes than your opponent. My friend Representative Robin Hayes is a good example to study.
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The person whose face is between your legs is gonna get lockjaw.
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So endless and exorbitant are the desires of men that they will grasp at all, and can form no scheme of perfect happiness with less.
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The science can tell you that the thousands of pseudo-scientific parenting books out there - not to mention the 'Baby Einstein' DVDs and the flash cards and the brain-boosting toys - won't do a thing to make your baby smarter. That's largely because babies are already as smart as they can be; smarter than we are in some ways.
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If every tool, when ordered, or even of its own accord, could do the work that befits it... then there would be no need either of apprentices for the master workers or of slaves for the lords.
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In this world, there is a kind of painful progress. Longing for what we've left behind, and dreaming ahead.
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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.
