If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
Serena WilliamsRead
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.
Interpretation
Valuing ongoing creativity and passion during one's career.
Serena Williams expresses the importance of not waiting until the end of oneβs career to pursue other passions. She emphasizes that it is fulfilling to engage in activities that spark joy and creativity while still achieving success in her primary career, highlighting the significance of balancing professional and personal interests.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech for aspiring athletes.
If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
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.
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.
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.
I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.
Conditioning is essential to success in basketball.
Time is money, be a better you.
I think about my own career, and when I graduated from college, the Internet didn't really exist yet. And so not having a specific plan, being able to be opportunistic at the end, is what enabled me to make some of my best decisions, which is to go to places that were growing but that I didn't plan to have happen.
i won't be happy until i'm famous like God
The individual who can do something that the world wants done will, in the end, make his way regardless of his race.
How many a man has thrown up his hands at a time when a little more effort, a little more patience would have achieved success.
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