Venus Williams Quotes
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Life's a challenge, but that's the best part.
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Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.
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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
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You win with your feet. It looks easy, and it's not.
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If the sun comes up, I have a chance.
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Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.
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I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.
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Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
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In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.
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Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.
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I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
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I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
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I'm a collaborator. I know I don't know everything. I don't want to know everything.
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For me, being part of the WTA tour is a privilege. Every day I wake up, it's a privilege to be able to go outside and do what I love. It's a privilege to be able to make my own hours, even though they're long, but I make them.
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I want to know that I gave my 100 percent, and even if it doesn't work, you know that you gave everything, and you don't have to look at it and say... I could have gave more - that would break my heart.
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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
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You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.
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I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn't one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.