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
I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
Interpretation
Athletes, particularly female athletes, should set a positive example for others.
This quote emphasizes the importance of female athletes as role models in society, particularly in sports. Venus Williams highlights the unique platform that female athletes have in the world of sports, encouraging them to inspire and empower others through their achievements and character.
In practice
In a motivational speech to students about pursuing sports.
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.
No matter how much funding I get, I'm always thinking, 'This is temporary. This is fragile. It could all end tomorrow, and how am I going to make today worth it? If this is my last day in the lab, what can I do so that I can walk out of here saying, 'That was a good day?''
'Wonder Woman' is much more than a cartoon character. She's fighting for truth and justice and the secret self that exists in all women and girls. There's a moral fiber and a goodness about her that all women have.
It never failed to amaze me how the most ordinary day could be catapulted into the extraordinary in the blink of an eye.
As a young black boy, it made me proud to see black leaders that did something amazing and made the world change.
Revival begins by Christians getting right first and then spills over into the world.
May all of you as Americans never forget your heroic origins, never fail to seek Divine guidance, and never lose your natural God-given optimism.
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