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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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Venus Williams
Age: 44
Born: 1980
Born: June 17
Entrepreneur
Tennis Player
Writer
Lynwood
USA
Venus Ebony Starr Williams
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Self
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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 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 know it's not the most important thing for me to win the most grand slams and be remembered in this world. I certainly don't have to win satellite tournaments here there and everywhere, I don't have to win at all. Although I do want to.
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My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
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Nerves are normal. You can't be cured from them unless you're a machine.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
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It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
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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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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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People ask me where I get my fighting qualities from, and I have to say Serena.
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I guess it's a little bit sentimental, but at the time I was really very focused in on really my performance. Afterward, it was really just a breath of fresh air, just like, 'Oh, yes, I'm back now. I'm doing good.'
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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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The thing that's most important in getting you in the best mindest is just being prepared - having a great practice, and knowing that no matter what knowing you're going to go in with confidence. You need to have that confidence to power through.
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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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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 say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.
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I love to be busy, and when I'm off the court, I do things I love.
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I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.
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