Venus Williams Quotes

Almost anything difficult, any challenge takes time, patience, and hard work.

I made it look so easy on court all those years. No one realized how hard I had to work. No one realized how much I had to put into it. They underestimated my intensity.

You always need to try hard to find solutions. It's the same in life or tennis.

I don't want to leave the field for a little thing. I try to be ready every day.

I'm a guy that's all about not trying to take the easy way out or get out of things too early.

Baseball wasn't easy for me.

Boxing has been the most difficult thing I've ever done. The biggest challenge in my life. I was a boxer. That was hard. Everything else is pretty easy.

Whatever you do, do it with all your might. Work at it, early and late, in season and out of season, not leaving a stone unturned, and never deferring for a single hour that which can be done just as well now.

To meet my goals, I couldn't let up when I was playing tennis.

There's really no substitute for working hard. I think that's my biggest talent. There are always people who are funnier and more talented than I am, but I don't take anything for granted and I commit myself 100% to each of my roles.

I can just put my head down and train hard.

I can plod. I can persevere in any definite pursuit. To this I owe everything.

Nothing is easy to the unwilling.

Carry on any enterprise as if all future success depended on it.

If you really want something, you'll make it work.

You need three things to win: discipline, hard work and, before everything maybe, commitment. No one will make it without those three. Sport teaches you that.

The secret of success lies in that old word, 'Drudgery,' in doing one thing long after it ceases to be amusing; and it is 'this one thing I do' that gathers me together from my chaos, that concentrates me from possibilities to powers, and turns powers into achievements.

I just keep my head down and work hard on what I do.

If you want something hard enough, it just gets done.

The superior man makes the difficulty to be overcome his first interest; success only comes later.

Most achievers I know are people who have made a strong and deep dedication to pursuing a particular goal. That dedication took a tremendous amount of effort.

If you bleed Black Label and you're going to be a man, you gotta get up there and do what you gotta do every day, relentless and as tired as you can be.

I don't stop when I am tired; I stop when I am done.

You just put your head down and do the work.

Put your life into it - it's not that hard.