If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
SERENA WILLIAMSIf you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that’s concentration.
SERENA WILLIAMSI am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
SERENA WILLIAMSEveryone’s dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
SERENA WILLIAMSLuck has nothing to do with it.
SERENA WILLIAMSI don’t go there thinking I’m going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I’ll do the best that I can. I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn’t be really excited about. So that’s all I can focus on.
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 WILLIAMSI always ask my dad why wasn’t I a lefty? Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.
SERENA WILLIAMSI’m a perfectionist. I’m pretty much insatiable. I feel there’s so many things I can improve on.
SERENA WILLIAMSYou can’t underestimate anyone.
SERENA WILLIAMSI do want to look good still; I do want to be healthy.
SERENA WILLIAMSNothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
SERENA WILLIAMSI think I can improve a lot. I think I can get a lot better. I feel like there’s much, much more I can do.
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 WILLIAMSWe all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I’m the best in the world.
SERENA WILLIAMSLuck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.
SERENA WILLIAMSI don’t know if I’ve had my share of drama, but I’ve definitely had my share of hard times.
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