If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
Serena WilliamsRead
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.
Interpretation
Valuing ongoing creativity and passion during one's career.
Serena Williams expresses the importance of not waiting until the end of oneβs career to pursue other passions. She emphasizes that it is fulfilling to engage in activities that spark joy and creativity while still achieving success in her primary career, highlighting the significance of balancing professional and personal interests.
In practice
This quote can be shared in a motivational speech for aspiring athletes.
If I'm winning, I have to act like I'm not bored. If it's A tough match, I have to act like I'm having A good time. I'm a drama queen.
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.
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.
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 am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
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.
Entrepreneurship is like a computer game in which you have to master every level before achieving success. Startups repeatedly stumble and have to go back to the drawing board. The best way to skip some levels and to increase the odds of survival is to learn from others who have already played the game.
Focus on building the best possible business. If you are great, people will notice and opportunities will appear.
There's nothing more satisfying than having an idea and seeing it through to find out that, not only did you like it, but the audience and critics all seemed to agree.
It is not ease, but effort-not facility, but difficulty, makes men. There is, perhaps, no station in life in which difficulties have not to be encountered and overcome before any decided measure of success can be achieved.
It is easy at any moment to surrender a large fortune; to build one up is a difficult and an arduous task.
Talent is insignificant. I know a lot of talented ruins. Beyond talent lie all the usual words: discipline, love, luck, but, most of all, endurance.
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