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I think I can change the game.

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Venus Williams
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: June 17
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Tennis Player
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Lynwood
USA
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I will always be the older sister. That's never going to change.
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A lot of times when you play... you get this adrenalin that blocks pain.
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Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.
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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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Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.
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My dresses are designed to win, so going through it, I think about, what do I want to represent? So, definitely, Vera Wang has been an inspiration for me.
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We're breaking records and we're moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.
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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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When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.
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If I cared deeply about what people thought of me, I probably would have never made it out of Compton, California.
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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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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.
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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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I think everyone deals with things in their own way. Everybody's different. My family are all different. None of us are the same. We all deal with different things in different ways. I think it's about knowing yourself, what pushes your buttons, and figuring out how to work with yourself.
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When you get into that habit of winning, it gets - I don't know if you call it contagious - but it gets to be a habit. She's developed an unbelievable habit.
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If I don't wear something I feel confident in, I don't play as well.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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I have to say accounting almost killed me.
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
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Just always believe in yourself. Champions adjust. It's a line I learned from Billie Jean King, and sometimes your dream adjusts. Be willing to adjust with it and see where your opportunities ... sometimes a door closes but a window opens, so just follow your dreams and continue. You never know where it's going to take you.
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