Serena Williams on Work Quotes

"I am a perfectionist. I'm pretty much an insatiable worker. I love to work."

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

"You have to be fearless for that. You have to be able to say, 'I'm going to do this.'"

"I've had to work through injuries, I've had to work through doubt, but I never stopped working."

"I've grown up on the court. It's my life. It's my work. It's what I do."

"I just never give up. I fight to the end. You can't go out and say, 'I'm done.'"

"I don't think about my legacy. I think about the next thing I need to do."

"You have to be able to accept that you're going to fail sometimes. That's part of the work."

"Every time I step on the court, I'm there to do a job."

"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."

"I've always been an underdog. I've always had to work twice as hard."

"The day I stop wanting to get better is the day I should walk away."

"You have to believe in yourself when no one else does."

"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."

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

"Consistency is the key to everything I have achieved in my career."

"I want to be a vessel for women and people of color. I want to show that you can be a mother and still work."

"I love the pressure. I love the feeling of having to perform when it matters."

"I'm always looking for ways to improve. I don't think I've ever reached my peak."

"I think you have to love yourself before you can fall in love with anyone else. I'm still learning that."

"I'm a very driven person. I'm very competitive. I've always been that way."

"I'm a athlete by day and a business woman by night. I never really stop."

"I've learned that you have to be your own biggest cheerleader."

"You can be whatever you want to be, but you have to be willing to do the work to get there."

"I never look back, I always look forward."

"I've always been a worker. If I want to be the best, I have to work the hardest."

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

"My dream wasn't just to be a tennis player. It was to be the best."

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

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

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

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

"I'm not going to stop until I'm the best. That's just how I work."