Serena Williams quotes

It's only a crazy dream until you do it.
- Serena Williams

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

Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?
- Serena Williams

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.
- Serena Williams

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.
- Serena Williams

I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall.” – Serena Williams
- Serena Williams

When you’re playing the best player in the world, you’ve got to play well.
- Serena Williams

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

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
- Serena Williams

Family’s first, and that’s what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.
- Serena Williams

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

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.
- Serena Williams

I don’t like to lose-at anything… Yet I’ve grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God’s reward, then losing is how he teaches us.
- Serena Williams

Nothing comes to a sleeper but a dream.
- Serena Williams

Venus told me the other day that champions don’t get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn’t get nervous and just do the best I can.
- Serena Williams

When I’m down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I’m constantly having an argument with myself.
- Serena Williams

We all know who the real number one is. Quite frankly, I’m the best in the world.
- Serena Williams

Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you’ve ever had.
- Serena Williams

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.
- Serena Williams

I think in life you should work on yourself until the day you die.
- Serena Williams

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

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

Since I don’t look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.
- Serena Williams

Tennis just a game, family is forever.
- Serena Williams

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

People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you’re a robot, and I’m not.
- Serena Williams

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