Serena Williams Quotes
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I'm a high-performance athlete: I'm running, I'm sprinting, I'm sliding, I'm doing pretty much everything and the last thing I want to worry about is my chest. I want to just worry about playing the sport at the highest level that I can.
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Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
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For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.
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I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"
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I do want to look good still; I do want to be healthy.
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I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
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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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We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I'm the best in the world.
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If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
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Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.
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Legendary? I don't know. I'm just Serena.
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I think you have to love yourself before you fall in love. I'm still learning to love myself.
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I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.
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Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.
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I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
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How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.
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You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.
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Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.
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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.
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I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.
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I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.
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No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.
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My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I finally went to fashion design school in 1999, I really took to pattern making. Everyone in class was good at something; I was the person, if you need help with your patterns, you come to me and I would help you out.
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I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.