Quotes from Serena Williams

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

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.

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.

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

Think of all the girls who could become top athletes but quit sports because they're afraid of having too many defined muscles and being made fun of or called unattractive.

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'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.

I think a smile can make your whole body. Models, they look fabulous, but they don't smile, and they look so mad.

If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration.

We're in different categories. She [Venus Williams] does sports, I do more of the fashion side.

The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up. Make sure you're very courageous: be strong, be extremely kind, and above all be humble.

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

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

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

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

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

I try not to have too many rituals because I believe that rituals don't help you win. I used to do rituals a lot and it was crazy.

People see me on the court only as a superhero, grunting and winning. They think you're a robot, and I'm not.

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.

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

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.

Tennis is my job, but it's not my life.

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

I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent before.