Venus Williams Quotes

To me, every time it goes badly I see it as a good thing - because that means I'm one step closer to where I want to be.

The failures and successes are necessary for learning.

When you lose, you're more motivated. When you win, you fail to see your mistakes and probably no one can tell you anything.

Every game is a chance to improve.

Even when you lose, you get better. Sometimes when you lose, you win.

Failure is instructive. The person who really thinks learns quite as much from his failures as from his successes.

What is defeat? Nothing but education. Nothing but the first step to something better.

Like success, failure is many things to many people. With Positive Mental Attitude, failure is a learning experience, a rung on the ladder, a plateau at which to get your thoughts in order and prepare to try again.

My reputation grows with every failure.

When you want to win a game, you have to teach. When you lose a game, you have to learn.

Don't think of it as failure. Think of it as time-released success.

Then as everything, like I say, things started to come together, when things started to go our way, that's when you results started to come. I was no different driver. I was certainly learning every time I went in the car.

We screwed things up and got a lot of things right.

You have to improve; that's how you develop.

Winning and losing aren't all they're cracked up to be, but the trip to the destination is.

You can't fail. The further you fall, the greater the opportunity for growth and change.

When you win a lot, you don't learn much. With my ups and downs, it's a lot of learning.

Mistakes are merely steps up the ladder.

Doing what you do well is death. Your duty is to keep trying to do things that you don't do well, in the hope of learning.

Winning is great, sure, but if you are really going to do something in life, the secret is learning how to lose. Nobody goes undefeated all the time. If you can pick up after a crushing defeat, and go on to win again, you are going to be a champion someday.

I think we're really getting it right the last few months and hopefully we'll get better and better at it.

Every time you find something that doesn't work, you're a step closer to what does work.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

I come from playing sports. I compete, so I gotta be better than I was last year. I gotta get better, and that better gotta come from just growing. From learning new stuff to working on it, experience it in life, and failing.

I think you can learn as much from success as you can from failure.