Serena Williams Quotes
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You can't play well if you don't look good.
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I'm watching a lot of the football.
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It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.
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I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.
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I love designing dresses and tops.
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The tournament means so much to me as well as the things I do in Africa. I thought it could also work well together.
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I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone on the women's tour to beat me.
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I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.
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I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.
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I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.
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I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
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Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.
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I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.
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I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.
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Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
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It's remarkable she Venus Williams plays at all, given her Sjögren's syndrome [an autoimmune disorder that can cause joint pain]. She's back, winning tournaments. She didn't allow society to tell her, "You have this disease; you can't do that anymore." I look at her, like, "She's not playing at 100 percent. You are. You don't have excuses." Knowing what she went through helped me try to be a more positive person.
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I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.
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Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had.
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It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
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I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.
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I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.
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I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
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The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.
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Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.