Top 100 Venus Williams Quotes (2025 Update)

1. “I don’t focus on what I’m up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.”

— Venus Williams

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2. “Just believe in yourself. Even if you don’t, pretend that you do and, at some point, you will.”

— Venus Williams

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3. “You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.”

— Venus Williams

4. “Interior design is a business of trust.”

— Venus Williams

5. “Life is challenging but I’m always up for a challenge.”

— Venus Williams

6. “Tennis is mostly mental. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.”

— Venus Williams

7. “It’s thrilling and it’s an honor to be part of something bigger than your own self.”

— Venus Williams

8. “I don’t have time to be negative.”

— Venus Williams

9. “I have to say accounting almost killed me.”

— Venus Williams

10. “My ambition is to enjoy my life and to do exactly what I want to do. And I’ll do that. I will be free.”

— Venus Williams

11. “Tennis is mostly mental. Of course, you must have a lot of physical skill, but you can’t play tennis well and not be a good thinker. You win or lose the match before you even go out there.”

— Venus Williams

12. “My motto is: I’m alive, so that means I can do anything.”

— Venus Williams

13. “So what if you fail? At least you’ll know what not to do when you try again.”

— Venus Williams

14. “It’s easy to stand back, but to move forward and take a chance, that takes a little more guts, a little more courage.”

— Venus Williams

15. “My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.”

— Venus Williams

16. “Chiropractic gives me the flexibility I need to keep in the game.”

— Venus Williams

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

— Venus Williams

18. “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.”

— Venus Williams

19. “I’m this overachiever type, I’ll just work and work and I’ll just do it over and over and over again.”

— Venus Williams

20. “I just try to stay positive and focused on the tennis, not let anything get to me, like crazy questions. But I’m tough, let me tell you, tough as nails.”

— Venus Williams

21. “I have a lot of dreams, and most of them come true these days.”

— Venus Williams

22. “It wasn’t like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.”

— Venus Williams

23. “Everyone makes their own comments. That’s how rumors get started.”

— Venus Williams

24. “Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.”

— Venus Williams

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25. “I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.”

— Venus Williams

26. “It’s a great feeling to have accomplished what I have, but I want to do more.”

— Venus Williams

27. “I don’t want to give anyone an edge in my mind. Every time I walk out on the court, I have to feel I’m the best so I can compete well. A lot of times, my chief rival is just me.”

— Venus Williams

28. “I don’t come to tournaments to make friends, to go to parties, to hold conversations. I come to be the best, and I’m not mean and cruel and dirty.”

— Venus Williams

29. “If I didn’t play tennis I don’t know where I’d be.”

— Venus Williams

30. “I am someone who likes to stay positive.”

— Venus Williams

31. “When you step out on the court, I don’t think anybody thinks about age. Because if you’re out on this tour, it means you deserve to be here. You’ve got the skill. It must mean you know how to play.”

— Venus Williams

32. “We’re breaking records and we’re moving forward. I always expected to win Grand Slams. This was meant to be.”

— Venus Williams

33. “To be a well-rounded person and know what’s going on in the world around you, to have a perspective outside of your sport, is important for every athlete. I’m blessed that our parents gave us that.”

— Venus Williams

34. “I have been recently diagnosed with Sjogren’s Syndrome, an autoimmune disease which is an ongoing medical condition that affects my energy level and causes fatigue and joint pain.”

— Venus Williams

35. “The principle of the design – the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.”

— Venus Williams

36. “I always like to win. But I’m the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I don’t have anything. It’s hard. I love her too much. That’s what counts.”

— Venus Williams

37. “In the sports arena I would say there is nothing like training and preparation. You have to train your mind as much as your body.”

— Venus Williams

38. “If I go down, it’s never easy. At least my opponent knows they have to go to the end of the earth to take me out no matter what the circumstances. I do try to compete. Even if it’s not your best day, I just try to walk off the court knowing I gave 100,000 percent.”

— Venus Williams

39. “I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don’t accessorize, someone else will.”

— Venus Williams

40. “There is nothing like playing at Wimbledon; you can feel the footprints of the legends of the game-men and women-that have graced those courts.”

— Venus Williams

41. “Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner. It’s in any game that you’re in – a business game or whatever – you can’t get complacent.”

— Venus Williams

42. “The naysayers, they don’t mean a thing.”

— Venus Williams

43. “All those lessons that I’ve learned on the court, I have applied them to my life outside of the court in business, my company, called V Starr interiors, an interior design company, and EleVen, which I wear on court.”

— Venus Williams

44. “When you get into that habit of winning, it gets – I don’t know if you call it contagious – but it gets to be a habit. She’s developed an unbelievable habit.”

— Venus Williams

45. “As far as everyone else’s opinion, I mean, if I would have thought that everyone was right, I probably wouldn’t have left Compton, so I don’t get too caught up on what the next person thinks.”

— Venus Williams

46. “I contribute my best in my sport and I also have a ton of respect for myself and my family.”

— Venus Williams

47. “Well, when I walk behind short people I feel like I’m going to fall over because I start taking these little steps, and I can’t take little steps.”

— Venus Williams

48. “Sometimes, when there’s a video montage. I’m thinking, ‘That’s my life. Oh, my God, I did that.’ Yeah, it’s amazing.”

— Venus Williams

49. “I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.”

— Venus Williams

50. “I love to be busy, and when I’m off the court, I do things I love.”

— Venus Williams