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.
I walk by studio heads and they actually look and put their hand out now, like maybe I should be on their radar.
My goal one day is to be in the same sentence as Rod Laver and Ken Rosewall.
Achieving the MDGs is not optional; it is an essential investment in a safer, more human and prosperous world
I had the feeling I was going to be successful, and I didn't want to be another disappointing Indian.
I don't take any shorts. I don't say, 'Okay, it's good enough.' I try to get exactly what I'm hearing in my head to the tape, and I won't let it move until then.
The praise of the praiseworthy is above all rewards.
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