Top 100 Quotes About Serena Williams
#1. I never suspected that we or any one person or program can create Serena Williams or John McEnroe or Pete Sampras.
Patrick McEnroe
#2. In Toronto, Serena Williams was not fit at all, not striking the ball well at all, and went three sets with someone (ranked) 92 in the world,
Tracy Austin
#3. So many players play Serena Williams, and so many players may catch her on a bad day, but she finds a way. She finds that extra gear. She makes it interesting, but at the end of the day, she come through in the end.
Howard Bryant
#4. I'm not gonna lie, I love Usain Bolt and Serena Williams. What I love about Serena is that she just gets on the floor and she dominates. She handles her business very well, I respect that.
Gabby Douglas
#5. No, I want my kids to be Tiger Woods. And Serena Williams. I dig those two.
Junior Seau
#6. Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.
Pam Shriver
#7. It was a match I lost, rather than she won [on Serena Williams winning with an apparent cramp injury at Wimbledon
Daniela Hantuchova
#8. I admire Serena Williams, because, I mean, who doesn't admire Serena Williams?
Johanna Konta
#9. The only people that really have a chance against Serena [Williams] are people that are strong, that can handle her power that move well, and that's a difficult combination.
Martina Navratilova
#10. Powerful, quick and agile, Serena Williams thrives on winning.
Don Yaeger
#11. When Serena Williams is number one, its hard to think of being number one, but still I have confidence that I can win more titles and reach a higher ranking.
Simona Halep
#12. My role is to think about tennis and to help Serena [Williams] be the best she can be and do what she wants to achieve.
Patrick Mouratoglou
#13. Since I retired, I very much enjoy watching Serena Williams play. While I was playing, she was one of the toughest players I ever faced. Her ground strokes are so solid, her serve is one of the most powerful in women's tennis, and mentally she is just so strong.
Monica Seles
#14. I hate my muscles. I'm not Venus Williams. I'm not Serena Williams, I don't want to look like they look.
Anna Kournikova
#15. I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.
Serena Williams
#16. And to not blink against the greatest player in the world, I think she's going - she said it really nicely. She [Serena Williams] said now, I can call myself a grand slam champion, and that sounds really, really nice. So I'm very happy for her.
Howard Bryant
#17. She [Serena Williams] played some great shots, but so did I, and that was the only difference.
Jennifer Capriati
#19. I think Serena Williams is the best tennis player of this generation, if not the best ever. It is amazing for her to be playing as well as she is at the age of 31.
Samantha Stosur
#20. I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.
Serena Williams
#21. It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.
Serena Williams
#22. I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall
Serena Williams
#23. Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.
Serena Williams
#25. To 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 Williams
#26. The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.
Serena Williams
#27. I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.
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#28. People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.
Venus Williams
#29. Luck 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 Williams
#31. All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.
Serena Williams
#32. I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days ... its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.
Serena Williams
#33. I 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 Williams
#34. Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!
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#36. I've always made some legendary comebacks since 1998 when it first started. So that's kind of just been my MO for my whole career.
Serena Williams
#37. I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
Serena Williams
#38. I'm like a chameleon. I can kind of change and get my game going to whatever the situation is. If I play well, which I don't think I've even reached yet at all in this tournament, it's really hard for anyone to beat me.
Serena Williams
#39. It's amazing, but I guess that happens when you become overly famous. Every week now, I get more famous.
Serena Williams
#40. I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.
Serena Williams
#41. I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something.
Serena Williams
#42. It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.
Serena Williams
#43. I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer.
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#44. Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.
Serena Williams
#46. I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?
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#47. 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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#49. My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.
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#50. No, I don't read the papers. I just look at the pictures.
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#51. I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.
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#52. When I first started really playing, in '98, I was super excited to see all the people I grew up watching ... I loved Monica Seles, Steffi Graf, and Pete Sampras.
Serena Williams
#54. I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.
Serena Williams
#55. 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.
Serena Williams
#56. I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.
Serena Williams
#57. I really hope that I can be helpful in that journey because I do believe that women deserve the same pay. We work just as hard as men do. I've been working, playing tennis, since I was three years old. And to be paid less just because of my sex - it doesn't seem fair.
Serena Williams
#58. I 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 Williams
#59. I'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
#60. If anything, we haven't changed much since we [with Venuse Williams] were kids. We really are the same people.
Serena Williams
#61. We're all conditioned that we shouldn't like our brothers and sisters, that we should be angry and fight. But that's abnormal. A lot of people think that the way Serena and I are with one another is weird. It's not.
Venus Williams
#62. My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.
Serena Williams
#63. When you lose, you get up, you make it better, you TRY AGAIN.
Serena Williams
#64. There's always another record, then there's always another person to catch up with or to pass.
Serena Williams
#65. The red kind of symbolizes a lot of things I do in Africa, along with a lot of the work, like the red laces. Everybody that buys a pair can pretty much save a life in Africa.
Serena Williams
#66. Couple years ago I was No. 7 and I ended up top. So I kind of like the position that I'm at right now. It's hot.
Serena Williams
#67. I've always considered myself the best and the top. I never considered that I was out of it.
Serena Williams
#69. I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.
Serena Williams
#70. My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.
Serena Williams
#71. 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.
Serena Williams
#72. I'm playing to around 30% of my potential - you'd be shocked at what I could do.
Serena Williams
#73. Sure, I've been on the Tube ... I caught it to Eastbourne once.
Serena Williams
#74. Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
Serena Williams
#75. I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.
Serena Williams
#76. I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.
Serena Williams
#77. Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.
Serena Williams
#78. I'm really super feminine, and I'm really soft. I'm very sensitive, I realized.
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#79. I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
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#80. I was just tired of losing ... Life was passing me by.
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#85. I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.
Serena Williams
#86. I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer
I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.
Serena Williams
#87. Those who say that Serena isn't serious about tennis; she wants to go Hollywood. That's true, about Hollywood. I would love to get a lot of acting gigs. But you wouldn't believe the stuff I've turned down because of my tournament schedule ... I would do well beside (comedian) Chris Tucker.
Serena Williams
#89. I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.
Serena Williams
#90. I've been getting my reel together. I think they are looking at me more as an actress because I have a lot of potential and a lot of skills.
Serena Williams
#91. Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.
Serena Williams
#92. I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope ... and that's all I had.
Serena Williams
#93. I love metaphors. I've never been on this train ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.
Serena Williams
#94. I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.
Serena Williams
#95. For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.
Serena Williams
#96. Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.
Venus Williams
#97. It's so great to have that opportunity with so many young American players coming up now. It's just so exciting. We have to root for the home country.
Serena Williams
#98. When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.
Serena Williams
#99. Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.
Serena Williams
#100. If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. [So I need] someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
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