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.
Ideas excite me, and as soon as I get excited, the adrenaline gets going and the next thing I know I'm borrowing energy from the ideas themselves.
You have something unique that no one else has - your life experience. That's the power of you.
We all want to have a place where we can dream and escape anything that wraps steel bands around our imagination and creativity.
I thought, 'Let's make it a check list. What if I got my education even though I lost my mother, even though my dad is in a shelter?' and looking at these things as hurdles to go over. I could inspire myself.
I believe that the message of Apollo XI was that in the spirit of Apollo, a free and open spirit, you can attack a very difficult goal and achieve it, if you can all agree and work together to achieve that goal.
It really is an honor if I can be inspirational to a younger singer or person. It means I've done my job.
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