Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
Venus WilliamsRead
Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
Interpretation
Prioritizing happiness and health over the pursuit of being the best is essential.
Venus Williams emphasizes that while striving for success and being number one is a natural desire, it should not come at the expense of one's well-being and happiness. True fulfillment arises from being healthy and content, which are more important than accolades or titles.
In practice
During a motivational speech about balancing work and personal life.
Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.
I don't want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I'm the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.
I think nowadays it's so easy as an athlete to become a statistic whether or not you lose everything or having trouble or whatever it may be.
I have always said that after sport, I wanted a life, I wanted an opportunity, I wanted to be able to do something. And if something happens - the economy falls out or the dollar is worthless, anything could happen - you have to be ready to work. And I'm ready.
If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.
Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
They say a midget standing on a giant's shoulders can see much further than the giant. So I got the whole rap world on my shoulders, they trying to see further than I am.
To make money in the markets, you have to think independently and be humble.
Pele called me the greatest footballer in the world. That is the ultimate salute to my life.
It is true that success is the most boring thing, it is tinny and brittle, failure runs deeper. Success is dangerous. I have a very complicated relationship with that word.
To double your net worth, double your self-worth. Because you will never exceed the height of your self-image.
It is the combination of reasonable talent and the ability to keep going in the face of defeat that leads to success.
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