Venus Williams famous quotes

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.
-- Venus Williams

#Motivational #Success #Sports

Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
-- Venus Williams

#Being Happy #Sports #Numbers

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
-- Venus Williams

#Inspirational #Inspiring #Badass

Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It's in any game that you're in - a business game or whatever - you can't get complacent.
-- Venus Williams

#Loss #Games #Losing

Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
-- Venus Williams

#Winning #Play #Skills

My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
-- Venus Williams

#Mean #Tennis #Alive

In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.
-- Venus Williams

#Player #Thinking #Tennis

In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #Tennis #Preparation

Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.
-- Venus Williams

#Fitness #Believe #Believe In Yourself

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.
-- Venus Williams

#Fun #Style #Different

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.
-- Venus Williams

#Want #Looks #Trends

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
-- Venus Williams

#Purses #Adults #Hello

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
-- Venus Williams

#Mistake #Winning #Failing

It is very important not to think about losing.
-- Venus Williams

#Thinking #Tennis #Important

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
-- Venus Williams

#Rain #Games #Waiting

I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts.
-- Venus Williams

#Love #Sister #Sports

A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
-- Venus Williams

#Pain #Block #Play

You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
-- Venus Williams

#Loss #Complacent

My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
-- Venus Williams

#Ambition #Want #Enjoy

Interior design is a business of trust.
-- Venus Williams

#Design #Interior Design

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
-- Venus Williams

#Rumor #Exciting

I don't have time to be negative.
-- Venus Williams

#Negative

If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.
-- Venus Williams

#Giving #Tennis #Trying

It's every Williams for themself.
-- Venus Williams

As far as everyone else's opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn't have left Compton, so I don't get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
-- Venus Williams

#Mean #Thinking #Next

Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
-- Venus Williams

#Order #Play #Perfect

I feel a little more tired than usual, ... Ive had to recover from everything, my illnesses and things this summer. Its not perfect circumstances, but Im definitely going to be out there and hopefully have my letdown after the Open ... I think Ill go in mentally a lot better. When it comes down to it I dont think anyone really wants to play me because I have a lot of weapons and not a ton of weaknesses. My main weakness would probably be an occasional self-destruction mode. So Ill try not to touch that red button accidentally.
-- Venus Williams

#Summer #Tired #Thinking

I'm always on the court with my dad.
-- Venus Williams

#Dad #Court #My Dad

I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.
-- Venus Williams

#Thinking #Media #Years

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.
-- Venus Williams

#Positive #Crazy #Tennis

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #Athlete #People

If Id lived prior to the 1980s, it would have been different, because I would have been playing to prove African Americans are equal. Now, I dont necessarily feel I have to play for black people, because obviously theyre doing everything in all sports. If I can go out there and play for myself and not feel I have to stand for something other than what I want to do, thats good.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #Play #People

A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.
-- Venus Williams

#Winning #Tennis

The naysayers, they don't mean a thing.
-- Venus Williams

#Mean #Criticism #Naysayers

It's easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.
-- Venus Williams

#Moving #Littles #Chance

I have to say accounting almost killed me.
-- Venus Williams

#Accounting

It's a nice bonus but, you know, I have to pay taxes too. (after winning the Grand Slam Cup.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #Nice #Winning

I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.
-- Venus Williams

#Thinking #Opportunity #Bully

I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.
-- Venus Williams

#Dance #Dancing #Feels

I think I can change the game.
-- Venus Williams

#Thinking #Games

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
-- Venus Williams

#Moving #Years #Knowing

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
-- Venus Williams

#Fashion #Art #Tennis

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.
-- Venus Williams

#Growing Up #Kids #Problem

Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
-- Venus Williams

#Careers #Tennis #Entertainment

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
-- Venus Williams

#Dream #Dad #Ukulele

Chiropractic gives me the flexibility I need to keep in the game.
-- Venus Williams

#Games #Giving #Needs

The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
-- Venus Williams

#Years #Play #Eight

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.
-- Venus Williams

#Thinking #Years #Play

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.
-- Venus Williams

#Interesting #Gold #Wonder Woman

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #Home #Competitors

I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
-- Venus Williams

#Fashion #Tennis #Balls

I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
-- Venus Williams

#Athlete #Thinking #May

I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.
-- Venus Williams

#Gains #Weight #Slim

I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty.
-- Venus Williams

#Friends #Sports #Dirty

I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #My Family

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.
-- Venus Williams

#Two #Tennis #Three

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.
-- Venus Williams

#Fun #Design #Style

I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren's Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.
-- Venus Williams

#Pain #Ongoing #Levels

To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
-- Venus Williams

#Tennis

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.
-- Venus Williams

#Fashion #Design #Balance

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.
-- Venus Williams

#Nice #Tennis #Opponents

I've always found the rain very calming.
-- Venus Williams

#Rain #Calming #Found

I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
-- Venus Williams

#Type #Overachiever #Just Do It

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'
-- Venus Williams

#Dresses #Needs

If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.
-- Venus Williams

#Play #Tennis

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.
-- Venus Williams

#Challenges #Life Is

My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.
-- Venus Williams

#Player #Goal #Trying

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
-- Venus Williams

#Destiny #Winning #Circles

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.
-- Venus Williams

#Sports #Thinking #Years

My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
-- Venus Williams

#Inspiration #Thinking #Winning

My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
-- Venus Williams

#Jobs #Big Sister #Firsts

I know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most Grand Slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win little tournaments here, there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.
-- Venus Williams

#Winning #Important #World

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.
-- Venus Williams

#Nice #Loss #Mcdonalds

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
-- Venus Williams

#Rumor #Comment

All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
-- Venus Williams

#Design #Lessons

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.
-- Venus Williams

#Exercise #Medicine #Air

I think every single point will be important, .. I think more than anything, I'll just have to be able to compete better. When you're playing Serena Williams, you have to compete better than her. I got a lot of tricks from Serena just watching her. She inspired me so many times. I also got motivated by her in the early part of my career, and even now. I just have to compete better, bottom line.
-- Venus Williams

#Thinking #Careers #Important

When youre on top, youre on top.
-- Venus Williams

I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterwards, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'
-- Venus Williams

#Air #Littles #Sentimental

Anything which draws attention to me because I am so attractive.
-- Venus Williams

#Attention #Attractive #Draws

I believe I live in a black and white. I think things are like either black or white. I don't really believe that much in the gray. I think that there's gray for a lot of people, but I don't live in the gray. I realize whatever action I have or take, it's going to have a consequence -- either good or bad. So I live my life in a way where I don't have bad consequences. I just notice there's a lot people around me just live in the gray. I don't know, for me, I'm just really straightforward.
-- Venus Williams

#Believe #Black And White #Thinking

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.
-- Venus Williams

#Athlete #Motto #My Motto

I think that Billie (Jean King) and Zina (Garrison), they have a whole lot of experience. Even if I don't quite agree with something or have a different way of doing it this week, whatever they said, I did it right away and I found out that it was correct. I think that's helped a lot...I'm having fun. I had a lot of fun out there. Sometimes I was ready to smile -- but I knew I'd lose focus -- because I was doing things that I'd done in practice and we talked about. I was ready to laugh and give someone a high-five, but it wasn't time for that.
-- Venus Williams

#Kings #Fun #Thinking

Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
-- Venus Williams

#Winning #Tennis #Win Or Lose

So what if you fail? At least you'll know what not to do when you try again.
-- Venus Williams

#Basketball #What If #Trying

I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.
-- Venus Williams

#Softball #Sports #Motivation

I can walk around fine, but I don't have a desk job.
-- Venus Williams

#Jobs #Desks #Fine