When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.
From Venus Williams
I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.
I believe that athletes - especially female athletes in the world's leading sport for women - should serve as role models.
The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.
When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.
I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more successful you are, the more demands you have. But it's definitely worth the sacrifice.
I always eat a huge breakfast on match days even though my stomach hates it.
When I play my match, I can't think about anything else except what I'm doing on my side of the net.
Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.
I've always been happy with my body.
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