I've almost lost several times but come through that. Being able to play your way through the tournament is really able to help.

I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

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.

We do more ready-to-wear and ath-leisure, things you would wear everyday. I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

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.

You can't play well if you don't look good.