I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.

I don't have a good British accent.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

I went on the courts with just a ball and a racket and a hope...and that's all I had.

Legendary? I don't know. I'm just Serena.

I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, you know, this never happened before.

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.