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American tennis player
Born On
1980-06-17
Birth Place
Lynwood, California
Birth Sign
gemini
Father
Richard Williams
Mother
Oracene Price
Nationality
American
Education
Indiana University East, The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale
Sportspersons, Tennis Players

This outstandingly exceptional tennis player has not only been in news for her phenomenal sporting abilities, but also for her fashion sense, which many consider to be disastrous. In 2007, Venus launched her own clothing line, ‘EleVen’ with an aim of popularizing clothes and footwear that will be comfortable to wear on the tennis court.

However this business venture did not work in her favor and the tennis star’s move was slammed by the public. The white onesie she wore during her match with Uzbekistan's Akgul Amanmuradova in 2011 subjected her to a lot criticism from the media. The dress was too short and revealed a little too much to the spectators, resulting in an outcry amongst Tennis enthusiasts.

Many also opined that the upper part of her dress was far from appealing, since it made her chest look saggy. It was later revealed that this outfit that was a product of her firm ‘EleVen’. Even though the material and the print of the dress were quite nice, overall it was rated as a fashion faux pas.

However, some feel that Williams is quite a positive thinker who isn’t too shaken by the harsh remarks and has been continuing to prove her prowess at the Tennis court. Year 2001 saw this ‘The Art Institute of Fort Lauderdale’ graduate being ranked among the 30 most powerful women in America by the ‘Ladies Home Journal’.

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.

Good
Venus Williams

Rain is good for me. I feel like I achieve clarity actually when it rains. The longer I have to sit and wait, the clearer my game becomes to me.

Good
Venus Williams

You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. There's no way around it. No matter how things are stacked against you, you just have to every time.

Time Fear
Venus Williams

Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does - that makes you a winner right there.

Attitude People
Venus Williams

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.

Life
Venus Williams

I don't focus on what I'm up against. I focus on my goals and I try to ignore the rest.

Focus Goals Rest
Venus Williams

I've always found the rain very calming.

Venus Williams

In life, there is no such thing as impossible; it's always possible.

Life
Venus Williams

Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to believe in yourself when no one else does- that makes you a winner right there.

Attitude People
Venus Williams

Life is challenging but I'm always up for a challenge.

Life
Venus Williams

I love seeing people be successful! I love that. It's wonderful. There's enough room for everybody.

Love People
Venus Williams

I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.

Truth
Venus Williams

Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.

Venus Williams

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

I don't snack a lot, because I didn't grow up snacking.

Venus Williams

Win pretty, win ugly, just win.

Venus Williams

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

Venus Williams

If you look at me, I'm very tall but I'm not huge or muscular. I tend to be slim and you know, I actually can lose weight quicker than I can gain it.

Venus Williams

If the sun comes up, I have a chance.

Chance
Venus Williams

Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.

Venus Williams

I never count calories. Counting calories is stressful and intimidating, so I avoid it! I know that if I'm eating something that's a treat, I don't need to count it because I mostly eat healthy and am conscious of what I'm putting in my body.

Body Eating
Venus Williams

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

Mistakes
Venus Williams

My family is the most important thing to me because they're always there for me when times are down.

Family
Venus Williams

Interior design is a business of trust.

Business Design Trust
Venus Williams

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

Venus Williams

I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.

Perfection
Venus Williams

One who is persistent will excel.

Venus Williams

You have to prove that you know what you're doing. You have to have longevity. You have to stay around.

Venus Williams

I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.

Venus Williams

Set realistic goals, keep re-evaluating, and be consistent.

Goals
Venus Williams

Athletes, like everyone else, at times take supplements but just have to consult your doctors and work on that. It's a process, but it's achievable... It's my job to be healthy.

Work
Venus Williams

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.

Positivity
Venus Williams

I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

Art Tennis Trend
Venus Williams

As long as we set up equality, we'll go in the right direction.

Equality
Venus Williams

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

Venus Williams

I want to get better. Every time you lose, you learn from it, and after every win, you look to building on the tempo.

Time
Venus Williams

You've got to live in the moment. When it's over, it's over.

Venus Williams

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.

Love
Venus Williams

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

Sister
Venus Williams

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.

Sports Training Mind
Venus Williams

I have a lot of good role models in my family for things off the court - like my older sister, who's a lawyer. I don't like writing papers, but she's helped me a lot. It's nice to have an art and business background because they tie together perfectly.

Family Good Art
Venus Williams

The first time you win, nobody picks you; the last time you win, nobody picks you. You've just got to pick yourself.

Time
Venus Williams

No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.

Venus Williams

I do expect a lot from myself, but it's also a balance of being... positive and also pushing yourself.

Positivity
Venus Williams

When you start playing tennis, you don't imagine there's a whole bureaucracy behind the tournaments and all of that. You just think about winning the cups.

Winning
Venus Williams

I spent my whole life playing sports and training and pushing myself to the limits.

Life Sports Training
Venus Williams

Sometimes women who are taller aren't comfortable with it, but I love being tall.

Love Women
Venus Williams

I love the food in Thailand because of the exotic spices they use. Their style of cooking is unique to their culture and always amazing.

Love Cooking Culture Food
Venus Williams

You have to do things right to stay in business, and that's not easy, and that's a choice on a daily basis, the choices you make in how to run your business and how to have a point of differentiation and how to be true to your brand, how to offer something that people want and to offer something that you love.

Love Business
Venus Williams

The thing about tennis is if you stay off for two weeks, or just for three days, you can lose your rhythm quickly. So it's just a question of constant diligence and vigilance.

Venus Williams

I think I've been fortunate to be at the top of the game and in the media for years, and a lot of times, people want to be your friend when you're on the top. You know, there have been times when I've been injured and I never got a phone call. So that's the way it is.

People
Venus Williams

Understanding that being nervous, having doubts and lacking confidence are emotions that are human is how you deal with it. It is okay to feel that way... and then understanding that you can work through it.

Confidence Work
Venus Williams

Grand Slam losses are hard. I treat myself after losses though, I usually go to McDonald's and I have a hamburger and you know, something. Because you know, you just need to be nice to yourself sometimes after the loss.

Venus Williams

When you are in the public eye, you have to protect yourself. There are so many people judging you. I just try to be myself.

People
Venus Williams

I was a teenager with braces and into sporty dresses with bright colors and cut-outs. For awhile, I really experimented with what I wanted to do. Some really extreme things, I recall.

Things
Venus Williams

I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.

Venus Williams

I had skate wing in London. I had mine grilled with lemon and herbs, and it was the perfect seasoning for that fish.

Venus Williams

Self-doubt is real. Everyone has it. Having confidence and losing confidence is real, too, and everyone has been in that position.

Confidence Losing
Venus Williams

Unfortunately the world is what it is now. People don't get along for whatever reason. As professional athletes, in a way we're almost ambassadors for peace, because sports brings everyone together.

Sports Peace People World
Venus Williams

My mom didn't want us to go to the candy house, she didn't want us to go to the ice cream truck, she didn't want us to go to the... There was actually a donut truck, if that makes sense.

Venus Williams

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

I don't carry a purse when I fly because I have my Hello Kitty carry-on. I'm the biggest adult supporter.

Venus Williams

A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.

Venus Williams

Growing up, I'd just be at home, playing tennis, spending my allowance on an ice-cream truck.

Growing Up Home
Venus Williams

Ruth's Chris is my favorite restaurant, and I always order the rib eye, medium-rare.

Order
Venus Williams

I always show up to the office sweaty! I'll come in between workouts in a tennis skirt drenched in sweat. The only time that I actually look presentable is at meetings.

Time
Venus Williams

My dad loves to eat, and he loves everything I make!

Venus Williams

I think women athletes who have been successful need to help other sports, those sports that are just emerging. That's what I've been thinking about and looking forward to.

Sports Thinking Women
Venus Williams

I knew my destiny was to be in the winner's circle. There were times along the way where I didn't make it there. But I felt my destiny was definitely to win big titles, win lots of titles.

Predestination
Venus Williams

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

Venus Williams

The principle of the design - the harmony, rhythm and balance are all the same with interior and fashion design.

Design Trend Synchronization
Venus Williams

If you're not a competitor, you've just got to go home.

Home
Venus Williams

If I have to work hard or think hard or just copy somebody else that's doing it better - whatever it takes, I'm going to find that solution. That's the drive that keeps me going.

Work
Venus Williams

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.

Opinion Right
Venus Williams

Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.

Greatness Sports Equality
Venus Williams

Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going forward.

Venus Williams

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.

Life Business Design
Venus Williams

The message I like to convey to women and girls across the globe is that there is no glass ceiling.

Women
Venus Williams

I don't think anyone feels older. You have this infinity inside you that feels like it could go on forever.

Venus Williams

I try to invest smart. I'm not a baller. I'm not a blinger.

Venus Williams

When you're on top, you're on top.

Venus Williams

Sjogren's is something you live with your whole life. The good news for me is now I know what's happening after spending years not knowing... I feel like I can get better and move on.

Good Life
Venus Williams

It wasn't like I was self-motivated. My dad started me. It was his dream before it was mine.

Dreams
Venus Williams

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.

Pain Energy Disease
Venus Williams

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.

Business
Venus Williams

For years I felt that I didn't have enough stamina and then, four years ago, I felt like I was not getting enough air but I was diagnosed with exercise-induced asthma. The medicine for asthma never worked.

Medicine
Venus Williams

Equality for men and women, across the world, not only in sports, is the goal. We obviously have a long way to go, but every little bit helps.

Equality Women World
Venus Williams

The big push for me is the Olympics this year. If I'm healthy, I'm not worried about my ranking. I think I can hit the ball. It's just about my body cooperating. It's about being able to play matches in a row. Right now, I'm not sure how much I can do with that, but we'll see.

Body
Venus Williams

When you're a big sister, it's a great job. I don't know how little sisters feel about their job, but when you're a big sister, you're supposed to take care of everything. And you feel good about it. I do.

Good Greatness
Venus Williams

After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.

Energy
Venus Williams

I say accessorize, accessorize, accessorize. If you don't accessorize, someone else will.

Venus Williams

No TV, no acting for me. I'm kind of a more behind-the-scenes kind of woman even though what I do is very public. I'm really low-key and I don't need to be the center of attention.

Venus Williams

Right now, I'm at the top of the world in my game so my focus isn't on when I'm going to end. My focus is on playing the best tennis that I can, and there is no end to that.

World Focus
Venus Williams

It's what I've trained for, from the first sketch to the fabric. Making dresses that are different from the usual style, and a lot of fun to wear.

Style Fun
Venus Williams

I'm not a trend person. I don't want to look to my right and see somebody in the same thing.

Venus Williams

'Oh and Oh' is a tennis term... It's a nice way of saying you took your opponent to pieces.

Venus Williams

Serena and I have done some great career planning, and we're playing really at the peak of our tennis right now. I think tennis has been a sport where people play this insane schedule from 14 years old, so of course at 26, it's over. We've really paced ourselves.

Greatness People
Venus Williams

I wear a lot of tight dresses, so I'm like, 'I need to do my sit-ups!'

Venus Williams

Since I started playing at the Olympics in 2000, I have always wanted to do a dress based on Wonder Woman. It should be interesting to wear. And hopefully, it will get me a gold medal.

Dress Gold
Venus Williams

My style is kind of eclectic and I don't like to do the same thing over and over again. I like to have fun and explore myself so you won't see the same design.

Style
Venus Williams

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