Serena Williams on Stoicism Quotes

"Everything comes at a cost. Just what are you willing to pay for it?"

"I am a perfectionist. I'm pretty much an insatiable perfectionist."

"If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration."

"I am not a person that gives up. I am a person that keeps going."

"I decided I can’t pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it."

"I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to be a fighter."

"I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I want a bag of chips.' You have to work."

"A champion isn't about how much they win, but how they can come back from a point of adversity."

"I think you have to love yourself before you can expect anyone else to love you."

"I don't think about the legacy. I just think about the next match."

"I'm a athlete, and I'm a black woman, and I'm a mother, and I'm a wife. I'm all these things, and I have to find a way to balance them."

"If I'm not doing well, I'm the first one to say it. I'm my own worst critic."

"Overcoming the fear of failure is the most important part of being a champion."

"You can be whatever you want to be, as long as you believe in yourself and work hard."

"I'm really good at blocking things out. I've had to be."

"Every strike brings me closer to the next home run. Oh wait, that's Babe Ruth. But I feel the same about my aces."

"I am not going to stop until I get there."

"I’ve always said that if I’m playing my best, no one can beat me."

"To this day, I don't like losing. It's just not in my DNA."

"I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are."

"The success of every woman should be the inspiration to another. We should raise each other up."

"Victory is very, very sweet. It tastes better than any dessert you've ever had."

"I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out."

"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."

"You just have to prove to yourself that you can go out there and be the best that you can be and not prove anything to anyone else."

"You have to be your own cheerleader."

"Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different. But different is good."

"The day I stop being a student is the day I stop being a champion."

"I don't like to lose — at anything — yet I've grown most not from victories, but from setbacks."

"I’ve always been a fighter and I’ve always fought through things my whole life."

"I've grown most not from victories, but from setbacks. If winning is God's reward, then losing is how he teaches us."

"I really think a champion is defined not by their wins but by how they can recover when they fall."