“I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I ...” — Serena Williams Quote

“I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become a statistic, so maybe I overcompensate. But I'm paranoid. Oprah told me a long time ago, 'You sign every check. Never let anyone sign any checks.'”

“I feel like I'm really young and I'm only thinking about my career and continuing playing.”

“The knee just isn't 100 percent. It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at your best and could potentially make it worse.”

“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.”

“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.”

“When I was younger, I was always obsessed with nails.”

“As the lilac-scented breeze carries the memories...there remains the lingering reminder of the times we hold in deep...for to love deeply and live deeply.... is to smell the fragrance of life.....”

“If some mystical clarity of thought came when you looked death in the eye, then I knew Morrie wanted to share it. And I wanted to remember it for as long as I could.”

“It's hard to believe. Where does the times go?' Betty sighs. 'I've always hated that phrase. It makes it would like time went on a holiday, and is expected back any day now. Time flies is another one I hate. Apparently, time does quite a bit of traveling, though.”

“After all, family dynamics aren’t independent clusters of choice and consequence, but rather a tapestry of intricately woven threads of action and reaction, passing over and under each other, knotting together time, emotion, and experience as one.”

“How baffling it is that we imagined cities incinerated by alien bombs and death rays when all they really needed was Mother Nature and time.”