Venus Williams Quotes About Tennis

Quotes about: Tennis

• Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can't play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Play, Skills

  Interview with Oprah Winfrey, www.oprah.com. March, 2003.

• My motto is: I'm alive, so that means I can do anything.

  Venus Williams

  Mean, Tennis, Alive

• In my mind, I'm always the best. If I walk out on the court (and) I think the next person is better, I've already lost.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Player, Tennis

• 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.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Tennis, Preparation

• It is very important not to think about losing.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Tennis, Important

• I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I'm tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.

  Venus Williams

  Positive, Crazy, Tennis

  " I'll be back, vows Venus Williams after shock Wimbledon defeat" by Simon Cambers, www.theguardian.com. June 25, 2012.

• Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Tennis, Win Or Lose

• A win's a win, unless it is not a win, and then it's not a win.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Tennis

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

  Venus Williams

  Play, Tennis, Knows

  "What planet is she on?" by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. June 09, 2002.

• 'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

  Venus Williams

  Nice, Tennis, Pieces

• To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.

  Venus Williams

  Tennis

• The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

  Venus Williams

  Two, Tennis, Three

• I'm only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Tennis, Balls

• The outfit is inspired by Alice in Wonderland. It's kind of about a surprise, because when Alice goes down the rabbit hole, she finds all these things that are so surprising. This outfit is about having a surprise in a tennis dress, and showing some skin and then just having a print. Prints don't happen that often in tennis. So it's called the Wonderland dress.

  Venus Williams

  Tennis, Skins, Dresses

• Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Thinking, Years

• I know I'm good at tennis. Other than that, everything else is a wild card. I'm a wild card.

  Venus Williams

  Tennis, Cards, Knows

• 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.

  Venus Williams

  Eight, Years, Play

• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  Venus Williams

  Careers, Tennis, Entertainment

• There were a lot of people shouting out. I know it's not proper tennis etiquette, but this is the first time I've ever played here that the crowd has been behind me like that. Today I felt American, you know, for the first time at the U.S. Open. So I've waited my whole career to have this moment and here it is. ... It was great. It was awesome. It was like winning gold.

  Venus Williams

  Winning, Careers, People

• I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

  Venus Williams

  Fashion, Art, Tennis

• Sport teaches you so much, and you can translate that to other parts of life. But it's definitely a lot of dedication, not just for, you know, myself or the children, but the parents, the family finances, the money that you could be putting toward retirement you're using to buy tennis shoes and restring rackets and tennis lessons. So if you don't make it, then you may never retire. It's definitely a lot of risk.

  Venus Williams

  Sports, Retirement, Children

• 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.

  Venus Williams

  Giving, Tennis, Trying

• Most definitely always been a passion, and always been one of my goals in life as a young person, to have my own business. My dad gave us his entrepreneurial mindset, so that was also ingrained, as well as the tennis. So in a lot of ways it's a part of making my parents proud. I think we all want to make our parents proud, you know?

  Venus Williams

  Dad, Passion, Thinking

• We don't talk about tennis. I figure she knows what she's doing. I mean, what am I going to tell her?

  Venus Williams

  Mean, Tennis, Figures

• I think business is the same as tennis. You have to have the love, that helps, or else it's just too much pressure to be able to keep up with.

  Venus Williams

  Thinking, Tennis, Helping

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