“I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling....” — Serena Williams Quote

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

“There's one thing I'm really good at, and that's hitting the ball over a net, in a box. I'm excellent.”

“How many people yell at linespeople? I see it happening all the time. I don't know how many times I have seen that happen.”

“I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.”

“I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.”

“Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire champions.”

“And the purpose of small talk is not to be controversial, clever or even interesting. It's simply to fill the silent void with a small gesture of common humanity. It's a spoken smile, a verbal handshake.”

“In the past, I tried to put on a brave face and smile after a defeat, but then it would backfire in training, and I'd get frustrated. Now I just embrace it, let it out, and then, two days later, I'm back in training and ready for the next game.”

“If women had to promise to provide for a man for a lifetime before he removed his veil and showed her his smile, would we think of this as a system of female privilege?”

“You've probably never seen me smile after winning a decision and you never will because that's not what I am there to do. I'm there to dominate my opponents, make them quit and finish them.”

“The Parthenon without the marbles is like a smile with a tooth missing.”

“If you're able to help some people and make them smile and make them realize that life is good, then that's worth so much more than buying a pair of shoes.”