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If I didn't play tennis I don't know where I'd be.

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Venus Williams
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: June 17
Entrepreneur
Tennis Player
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Lynwood
USA
Venus Ebony Starr Williams
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Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.
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Serena and I, we don't have anything to prove ... we still set a very high standard.
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If you give me a short shot I will attack you. I'm not a baseliner who rallies. I try to get the point over with.
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My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I'll do that. I will be free.
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If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.
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We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?
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Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I'm going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can't take little steps.
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In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.
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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.
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It's amazing when tragedy strikes, how strong you find that you are, and I'd seen other people go through horrible things. And I just thought, Wow, I would be a complete mess, and then suddenly when it happens, you realize you had more strength than you knew and it helps you to get through.
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Just believe in yourself. Even if you don't, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.
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It's thrilling and it's an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self.
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Sometimes, you know, once you pay your taxes and once you pay your expenses, once you've lived this life, things add up quickly. And it's easy to become a statistic. And that's something I've always tried to avoid, and I've always said, hey - not that it won't be me, that, hey, it could be me.
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For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
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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.
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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.
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I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.
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Definitely sport matures you, if you let it. It definitely makes you grow up because you have to work so hard that if you can't, then you probably aren't going to have the mental capacity to handle it all. That probably played a role in growing up a little faster than maybe other people.
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I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.
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I feel amazing right now. I just feel like dancing.
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