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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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Venus Williams
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: June 17
Entrepreneur
Tennis Player
Writer
Lynwood
USA
Venus Ebony Starr Williams
Life
Ambition
Exactly
Free
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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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Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.
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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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People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.
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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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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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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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Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
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All those lessons that I've learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.
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I'm this overachiever type, I'll just work and work and I'll just do it over and over and over again.
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My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.
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A lot of people say, Oh, I get this high from working out. I've never felt that, maybe because I've worked out for so long it's just a norm for me to push super, super hard. I don't feel the euphoria. But at the end, when it's all done, I feel euphoric. I'm like, Yes, the work is done. You just feel like a glowing feeling inside.
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The thing is, it's not good anyway for eight-year-olds to be out there playing tennis tournaments so soon in their lives. But when I did get to play in a tournament, when I was nine, I was overjoyed.
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We've been training and playing full-time since we were 18 and 19. So after tennis, we'll be excited to see what it's like to have more free time.
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