Venus Williams Quotes

Tennis is basically a game where you try to create an opportunity for yourself to finish the point, because you can't wait for the opponent to miss anymore. Well, if you create an opportunity and don't take advantage of it, you let the opponent back to even, then you are just starting the point over, so you have to take advantage of them.

The best feeling is when you finish a point at the net.

I'll let the racket do the talking.

I'd just as soon play tennis with the net down.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

I was in the main draw from the start, my opening match was on Court One against Jan Eric Lundquist of Sweden who was about eight in the world at the time.

In a tiebreaker, you generally have a lot of adrenaline running through. It's all about just holding your serve, trying to hold two serves at a time, trying to stay ahead in the tiebreaker, constantly put pressure on my opponent.

You love the competitive one-on-one aspect, where you look across the net, and you're trying to beat your opponent. You're doing everything you physically can to win on that day.

When I'm on the field, I really don't focus on fans. I just focus on my responsibility, which is the guy right across from me.

I let my racket do the talking.

You can almost get overwhelmed if you start focusing on Serena being on the other side of the court.

When I'm in the ring my main focus is just to get the job done.

In practice, there is no consequence. If you miss a ball, you just pick up another ball and serve again, or you come back the next day and play. In the matches, every point has got a consequence. If you lose, you don't come back the next day and play.

I don't know how I look when I'm on the court to tell you the truth, I'm just focused.

Most guys aren't getting a racquet or putting balls back in off my serve most of the time.

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

When you're in a race car, you're going through so many different emotions throughout that race.

I don't worry about what my opponent is doing.

I watch the ball fiercely to see its height and speed off my opponent's racket so I can decide how I want to hit it.

When there's an important tournament going on, I try and stay in a bubble. It's easy that way because then you don't have to worry about anything else.

Tennis is for me joy, nothing less than that.

Before a match, I do not follow any chess news except the games.

You just try to play tough and focus point for point. Sounds so boring, but it's the right thing to do out there.

A lot of times when I ran, to be honest, I didn't know where I was in the race. So I always was looking up at the scoreboard to say, 'Just call my name to see where I am,' because I tried to have such tunnel vision not to distract myself.

Tennis is best of three sets, so even if I lose the first set, I still have a chance.