Serena Williams Quotes

I love going to movies.

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.

All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like...10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

I was having an out-of-body experience, it was so hot. I felt I was watching someone play in a blue dress, and it wasn't me.

I'm proud to have opened [two] schools in Africa and one in Jamaica [through the Serena Williams Fund and its partners]. I was given a lot. I was given two parents. That's already starting above a lot of kids. And then I was given the opportunity to play tennis and parents who supported that. I feel I can give back.

I wish I could play like Roger Federer.

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 on the women's tour to beat me.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

Who says that your thirties is when you're supposed to be done? I would like to know who made that rule!

I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.

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.

I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was super young; I used to make clothes for my dolls. When I finally went to [fashion design] school [in 1999], I really took to pattern making. Everyone in class was good at something; I was the person, if you need help with your patterns, you come to me and I would help you out.

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.

I love designing dresses and tops.

My dad is the nicest guy you'll ever meet, and the easiest going.

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.

I'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.

I never thought about leaving a tennis legacy. I always thought about leaving a legacy of fulfillment, living out your dreams, and giving back.

The guy is the greatest male athletes of all time.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer.

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

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

I'm an actress, model and athlete, and I'd put athlete third on the list.

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

There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.

Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

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

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

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.

I'm not one to blame anyone else for anything. And I don't think anyone else should either.

No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.

Venus [Williams] has an amazing line; I love her collection. I'm always at her office. She has an interior design company and her EleVen company. They have a wonderful office space and I'm always there for the interior part and get to see what she's doing with EleVen.

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.

I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

I 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.

When you travel so much, the best and most relaxing thing is to just sit on the couch and not move.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.

Most people that do play nowadays hit really hard. It was good to get someone that hit really hard early on.

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.