Venus Williams Quotes

We hope all danger may be overcome; but to conclude that no danger may ever arise would itself be extremely dangerous.

Success breeds complacency. Complacency breeds failure. Only the paranoid survive.

Only the paranoid survive.

Well, I think we tried very hard not to be overconfident, because when you get overconfident, that's when something snaps up and bites you.

No matter how well things are going, failure and disaster are just around the corner. So celebrate the good, but be ready for the bad.

My motto has always been that you can't say, 'Oh, it won't happen to me.' You have to say, 'That can happen to me.' So always be aware that things can happen.

I think you cannot be too complacent. I think that's dangerous, and you cannot take anything for granted.

I never want to get caught with not expecting something.

I can't cruise no more. You cruise, you lose.

If anybody knows that you need to be prepared regardless of the situation, that's me.

Don’t go looking for trouble; it’s already looking for you.

And don't you let your guard down for a second because you think anything's inevitable.

Precaution is better than cure.

A game is not won until it is lost.

You really need to be on the edge and you have to keep your eyes open.

It is wisdom in prosperity, when all is as thou wouldn't have it, to fear and suspect the worst.

Winning had become kind of automatic, but I realized in 2008 that at any moment that could be taken away from me.

He that's secure is not safe.

When life is too easy for us, we must beware or we may not be ready to meet the blows which sooner or later come to everyone, rich or poor.

Living is dangerous. The important thing is to know the limits.

Only the paranoid survive.

Fear is the mother of foresight.

I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.

Golden rule of life: never underestimate your rivals.

In the real world in which we live, it's a dangerous world. And you know the old saying is that we have to be right 100 percent of the time; the terrorists only have to be right once.