When you step out on the court, I don’t think anybody thinks about age. Because if you’re out on this tour, it means you deserve to be here. You’ve got the skill. It must mean you know how to play.
I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.
I’m only seeing tennis balls these days. And maybe the occasional fashion sketch.
If you’re not a competitor, you’ve just got to go home.
I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.
I guess some kids around me had to grow up quickly, had all those problems. But I wasn’t one of those kids, or around those kids, not at all.
Everything is tennis for me, it’s my career and it’s entertainment, but it’s also a business.
It wasn’t like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.
Chiropractic gives me the flexibility I need to keep in the game.
The naysayers, they don’t mean a thing.
A win’s a win, unless it is not a win, and then it’s not a win.
It’s every Williams for themself.
As far as everyone else’s opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn’t have left Compton, so I don’t get too caught up on what the next person thinks.
My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn’t always happen, but that’s what I try for.
I knew my destiny was to be in the winner’s circle. There were times along the way where I didn’t make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.
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.
For years I felt that I didn’t have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.
My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
Id like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
I think I can change the game.
I think if you have the opportunity to bully your opponent then you have to take that chance.