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.
SERENA WILLIAMSI’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.
SERENA WILLIAMSI 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.
SERENA WILLIAMSTo this day, I don’t love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I’m not complaining. They pay my bills.
SERENA WILLIAMSI am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
SERENA WILLIAMSI decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
SERENA WILLIAMSYou have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
SERENA WILLIAMSYou 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.
SERENA WILLIAMSIf anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.
SERENA WILLIAMSThere’s one thing I’m really good at, and that’s hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I’m excellent.
SERENA WILLIAMSI 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.
SERENA WILLIAMSI really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.
SERENA WILLIAMSYou just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.
SERENA WILLIAMSI don’t have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.
SERENA WILLIAMSI’m so frugal, you wouldn’t believe it.
SERENA WILLIAMSI’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.
SERENA WILLIAMSI’m an athlete and I’m black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I’m paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, ‘You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.’
SERENA WILLIAMS