Serena Williams quotes:

I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just another fight I'm going to have to learn how to win, that's all. I'm just going to have to keep smiling.

Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis game.

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court working for my one moment in time, not knowing when it would come.

My school was really small, but I was called the Class Clown!

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body. I want women to know that it's ok. That you can be whatever size you are and be beautiful inside and out.

Tennis just a game, family is forever.

I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, trying to lean out my body so I won't be bulky.

Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.

When I'm down, I talk to myself a lot. I look crazy because I'm constantly having an argument with myself.

My goal in a couple of years is to try to build a successful fashion house like Armani or Versace. I want that more than anything.

What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles.

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

My mom taught me how to sew when I was 2 or 3, so I've been sewing for as long as I can remember.

I was just tired of losing... Life was passing me by.

You have to believe in yourself when no one else does.

I've thought it would be cool to have a baby young. You know, be my road dog - like my dogs, they travel the world - but there's always something you have to give up for success. Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?

I'm thankful to my family, friends, and fans for all of their support.

I love tennis more than designing because it's actually easier and I don't get nearly as nervous.

I've always enjoyed acting. When we were younger, my sisters and I would put on plays for our parents.

I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.

I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.

When you're playing the best player in the world, you've got to play well.

You can be whatever size you are, and you can be beautiful both inside and out. We're always told what's beautiful and what's not, and that's not right.

Once I serve well, my whole game goes up.

My dad is a marketing mastermind.

I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wasn't easy - it took me a while.

I love going shopping.

How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.

I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ladies.

I am basically a blazer. If I were a clothing item, I would be a legging and a blazer.

It's a lot of bling to play with. You got to have the bling.

Everyone in this room knows that Venus is probably one of the greatest people on the tour. She's really great. She's super professional. Complete opposite of me.

I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, this never happened before.

I've never felt invincible. I've never used that word to describe me ever.

My fridge is really just vegan: coconut water, Gatorade (my favorite!), cucumbers, mint, kale, vegetables, ginger, and wheat grass.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Yeah, um, I do twitter because I want people to, you know, get to know me, my fans, or my fans to get to know me, you know, just see what type of person I am. You know, hopefully be more on an intimate level with me as opposed to a distant level.

When I'm 32? Hopefully I'll have made my mark with a few different movies, some scary ones and some comedies. I'm really funny, I have a great personality on the camera.

It's a corset design making me look very, very slim and trim. I call it a corset dress. Very Hollywood glamour with the silk.

I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.

I always ask my dad, 'Why wasn't I a lefty?' Even when I was younger I wanted to be lefty. I could have been really good.

Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.

I just love leopard print.

My smile is my favorite part of my body. I think a smile can make your whole body.

No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.

For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us and they always win.

Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good.

If Plan A isn't working, I have Plan B, Plan C, and even Plan D.

Growing up I wasn't the richest, but I had a rich family in spirit. Standing here with 19 championships is something I never thought would happen. I went on a court just with a ball and a racket and with a hope.

I definitely have found a balance. I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or different things and I always choose tournaments over it.

With a defeat, when you lose, you get up, you make it better, you try again. That's what I do in life, when I get down, when I get sick, I don't want to just stop. I keep going and I try to do more. Everyone always says never give up but you really have to take that to heart and really do never definitely give up. Keep trying.

I'm an unbelievable designer. I don't know how I know and just do these things. I just start sketching and then I just know the colors and I always know the forecast. I know green and purple are going to be hot. I was born to be a designer. I worked hard to be a tennis player, I don't work hard to be a designer.

I would be really excellent in a horror film because I have a great scream. I'd be really good in a comedy too. I'm top, top, top quality.

If you smile things will work out.

All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm thinking about it all day.

I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts to go up to him. I went up to him, I was like, 'Can I have a picture?' We talked acting; he wanted to know what I was doing. We talked a little tennis. I mean, he knew all about myself and my sister.

Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped me a lot. I decided I shouldn't get nervous and just do the best I can.

I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.

I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.

I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.

I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterfly.

I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.

I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.

I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.

I don't know if I've had my share of drama, but I've definitely had my share of hard times.

We're going in really fresh. We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able to stay the distance, and that's our goal.

To this day, I don't love my arms. People want more fit arms, but my arms are too fit. But I'm not complaining. They pay my bills.

I always say that when I'm playing well, no one can beat me. I'm not just saying that to sound full of myself or anything, but it's true.

I've never been over-dramatic in my whole career.

If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.

A lifetime with Venus Williams will not be enough.

All I want is to have fun in what I'm doing every day. I don't want to break records. To become the greatest player ever could take me like...10 more years and I don't think I'll still be playing at 31.

Am I the greatest? I don't know. I'm the greatest that I can be.

Couple years ago I was No. 7 and I ended up top. So I kind of like the position that I'm at right now. It's hot.

Dad thanks for leaning in by helping me become a role model for young girls.

Everybody who plays me plays me so hard because they always want to beat me.

Everyone is from Russia. Sometimes I think I'm from Russia, too. All these new Ovas. I don't know anyone. I don't really recognise anyone. That's just how it is. I think my name must be Williamsova.

Honestly, I could get in a car accident today and never play tennis again, and then I wouldn't have anything to fall back on. But fortunately enough, I do.

Honestly, I don't read the press. I don't know what they're saying.

Hopefully I'll be able to mature one of these days, get serious, and at least have them [kids] pretty fast.

I always believe I can beat the best, achieve the best. I always see myself in the top position.

I always say if I play my best it's difficult to beat me

I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.

I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've won the U.S. Open. Now can I relax." But now people are really going to be fighting to beat me.

I definitely want to have kids one day. That's something I've always wanted since as long as I could remember. And the older I get, the more I'm like, "I'm too young!"

I do want to look good still; I do want to be healthy.

I don't go there thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can. I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

I don't go thinking I'm going to lose. I never go into a tournament thinking that. I'll do the best that I can.

I don't have a good British accent.

I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude.

I don't have anything to prove ever, ever in my life. If I have something to prove, what does that mean for everyone else? And I think everyone should have that attitude. You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone.

I don't like to lose-at anything... Yet I've grown most not from victories, but setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us.

I don't want to age myself.

I don't want to be like some of those celebrities walking around, just so full of themselves. I always want to be down-to-earth, want to be a person like when you meet them, they're the same person that you think of them in the article or something.

I don't want to end my career and then start something, I like to do something while my career is still hot and I've always enjoyed designing. There's plenty of time after my tennis to definitely go full-time fashion, when I have arthritis and all that fun stuff.

I feel as a brand I'm here to be around for a long time.

I feel like I don't have to win anymore. I've had a wonderful career. Tennis has given me so much, things I would have never expected in my life. I feel honored to even be a part of such a wonderful sport.

I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.

I figure J-Lo does all these movies and all these videos and all this other stuff...I know I can play tennis and act and do photo shoots and model. I know I can do all that.

I got involved in the design process a long time ago. I've been working with their main designer [Berlei] for a while. It's been really fun all around.

I grew up watching my mom in the kitchen, that's how I know anything about cooking. I've always wanted to go to a culinary class actually.

I have a wonderful white coat I can wear on the court and also in New York for those rainy days...its lady-like and goes perfect with my personality.

I have started to realize that I am really just a world athlete and a world entertainer -- I am a world-known person, I am a global icon.

I just hate to lose. When I am on the court, it is like my life depends on it.

I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of never-say-die spirit.' It's not for sale. It has to be innate.

I know a lot of people who are 12 and doing things they shouldnt be doing. Whether youre an actress or a singer, its always the sexier ones that are selling more tickets or selling more albums.

I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it.

I like to wear classic silhouettes and add a punch to it. I'll wear a high-waist legging and a super-crop top or a see-through top with a nice bra underneath. And I just always try to mix it up with heels or something.

I love "Phenomenal Woman." The experiences she had of being African American in the U.S. - that itself is a task. I appreciate the hardships Maya Angelou went through for our generation. I'm super influenced by the black people that paved the way for us.

I love designing dresses and tops.

I love going to movies.

I love hitting aces. It's not easy, but it makes your life a lot easier.

I love metaphors. I've never been on this train. ... If I'm standing on the middle of a track, I'm definitely going to get derailed. I have to make sure that I'm on the train and not in front of it.

I meet people who say, "Girl, I watch every match, and I pray for you." I feel that energy and those prayers. Sometimes when I'm down on the court, in the back of my mind, I'm thinking, "They want me to win. Is there anything else I can give?" It encourages me to do better, to fight harder.

I need to be at my peak and my best is holding up the trophy. Anything less I wouldn't be really excited about. So that's all I can focus on.

I never close my mind to anything and eventually want to branch out. But for now, tennis is still number one for me.

I never left my roots. You can identify me as someone that didn't become high and mighty. Humility is a defining [trait] all of us can forever learn, and I try to be as humble as anyone can be.