Venus Williams Quotes

"I'd like to achieve health the whole year, stay strong and stay healthy and avoid the viruses,"

"Wimbledon needs to do the right thing and finally pay the women the same as the men. Players won't be satisfied until all of us -- not just one out of 128 -- are treated equally with the men."

"Even though I've won major tennis tournaments, been on television, radio and numerous magazine covers, seeing my picture on McDonald's packaging was one of the coolest and most exciting moments of my life - I literally beamed when I saw it. McDonald's Global Casting Call will give people around the world the chance to feel the same excitement I did that day."

"It was a comedy of errors, ... She's definitely a good player but I don't think she came out there and beat me. I just kept making error after error."

"I just felt like under normal circumstances I really felt like I would have been able to win that match,"

"My doctors and trainers have advised me that my leg needs to fully recover in order for me to play at the level that I'm accustomed to playing."

"My health is okay. My experience will carry me even though I didn't play that many tournaments this summer. I'm mentally prepared."

"It's a lot of hard work to go to win the title and making these things happen,"

"I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don't have anything. It's hard. I love her too much. That's what counts."

"If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home."

"When you're on top, you're on top."

"I knew she was watching when Serena won the U.S. Open and she's happy to see another black woman win in her lifetime,"

"I'm really dedicated to getting my ranking up. I feel like, wow, I'm a very good player. There are all these people ranked ahead of me. After a while, I'm tired of being ranked low."

"When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything."

"I don't come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I'm not mean and cruel and dirty."

"It's easy to fumble and easy to self-destruct in those kind of conditions."

"I was in pain, it was really tough to move and I couldn't move fast. But I really wanted to stay on court because this is my only preparation for the Australian Open. I had to do my best to stay out there so I had to do the right things within my power."

"She doesn't know that I have a food taster."

"Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there."

"I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis."