If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentra...
SERENA WILLIAMS Tennis just a game, family is forever.
SERENA WILLIAMS I am not a robot. I have a heart and I bleed.
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm not used to crying. It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's...
SERENA WILLIAMS I think it's bad when people start booing between serves.
SERENA WILLIAMS I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will ...
SERENA WILLIAMS Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really he...
SERENA WILLIAMS Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire...
SERENA WILLIAMS Since I don't look like every other girl, it takes a while to be okay with that. To be different...
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm really exciting. I smile a lot, I win a lot, and I'm really sexy.
SERENA WILLIAMS I love who I am, and I encourage other people to love and embrace who they are. But it definitely wa...
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm an athlete and I'm black, and a lot of black athletes go broke. I do not want to become ...
SERENA WILLIAMS What's going to make me happy is going on the court and holding up trophies, singles and doubles...
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm Serena Williams on the court, but away I have so many different names. I call myself Butterf...
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm a real extrovert, but when I'm round someone new, I'm super shy.
SERENA WILLIAMS I've always been a fighter and I've always fought through things my whole life.
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm so frugal, you wouldn't believe it.
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm not used to crying. . . . It's a little difficult. All my life I've had to fight. It's just anot...
SERENA WILLIAMS Venus told me the other day that champions don't get nervous in tight situations. That really helped...
SERENA WILLIAMS All my life I've kinda dreamed of being the best, and doing the best, and it hasn't always been easy...
SERENA WILLIAMS Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the tennis g...
SERENA WILLIAMS I wasn't going to speak today because it's too hard for me to talk.
SERENA WILLIAMS It brings out the eyes. I wear very light foundation, lip gloss. For me it's not about trying to loo...
SERENA WILLIAMS Last year we in Palm Beach got hit really bad,
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm definitely picking it up each round, ... I'm definitely playing better than I was even a week ag...
SERENA WILLIAMS [Sister Venus said] every single thing ... I guess not every single thing, but at least on the tenni...
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm definitely not at my best. Honestly, I'm under 50 percent. But I've won stuff under 50 percent b...
SERENA WILLIAMS There's no better stage than the U.S. Open for me. I definitely love it.
SERENA WILLIAMS No one gets me more motivated than Venus because I don't want her to catch up with me yet. She's at ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I definitely have found a balance, ... I've had so many offers in the past to do different movies or...
SERENA WILLIAMS It could come very soon. All I can do is play to get to the fourth round. Venus and I just have to g...
SERENA WILLIAMS The knee just isn't 100 percent, ... It's hard to be out there when you know that you can't play at ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I've always been a beauty junkie. I've tried every product. I'm addicted to products. I can't go int...
SERENA WILLIAMS We don't have play time anymore because she's always on the computer. ... I'm like, 'Are you serious...
SERENA WILLIAMS I didn't put it on tight enough because I was rushing to go out. I was hoping it wouldn't fall, but ...
SERENA WILLIAMS Hopefully, we can build a rivalry and we'll be able to do this a lot. Make a legacy, then retire cha...
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can improve on.
SERENA WILLIAMS I am here to play women's tennis. I'm a lady. Predominantly, most of the time I always like to play ...
SERENA WILLIAMS Because of my ankle injury I had to take some time off so my leg isn't as strong as it needs to be, ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I wasn't used to the conditions and...I had to kind of gather myself. When I won the second set I wa...
SERENA WILLIAMS If you can keep playing tennis when somebody is shooting a gun down the street, that's concentration...
SERENA WILLIAMS For the younger sisters, we always look up to the older sisters because they're always ahead of us a...
SERENA WILLIAMS I've always considered myself a philanthropist.
SERENA WILLIAMS I've developed a karaoke habit. I've become a crooner.
SERENA WILLIAMS Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.
SERENA WILLIAMS I'm a perfectionist. I'm pretty much insatiable. I feel there's so many things I can imp...
SERENA WILLIAMS Having a pulmonary embolism is definitely easier than heart break.
SERENA WILLIAMS I can't become satisfied, because if I get satisfied, I'll be like, "Oh, I've won Wimbledon, I've wo...
SERENA WILLIAMS I need to start hitting more aces; my donation's going to be embarrassing, ... It's not looking so g...
SERENA WILLIAMS If anything, you know, I think losing makes me even more motivated.
SERENA WILLIAMS No one likes getting their nails done more than I do.
SERENA WILLIAMS I want to be a giving woman and just a nice person in general.
SERENA WILLIAMS I can't believe I'm out of the tournament. There's no one, beside Venus, who would beat me,
SERENA WILLIAMS She's playing unbelievable, so I'm going to have to pick it up. Venus has been working hard for quit...
SERENA WILLIAMS I said (to Venus) you played terrible,
SERENA WILLIAMS I don't think there's anyone besides Venus that could have beaten me at this championship, ... Hones...
SERENA WILLIAMS It was extremely hot out there. Was that the hottest I've been? Maybe. It was definitely one of the ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I think I actually made a very kind gesture out of nowhere, ... I just decided in the middle of the ...
SERENA WILLIAMS There's no one beside Venus who would beat me in these championships,
SERENA WILLIAMS I talked with Tom Hanks. I saw that movie 'Turner and Hooch' at least 50 times. It took all my guts ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I was just tired of losing. . . . Life was passing me by.
SERENA WILLIAMS Luck has nothing to do with it, because I have spent many, many hours, countless hours, on the court...
SERENA WILLIAMS I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
SERENA WILLIAMS Family's first, and that's what matters most. We realize that our love goes deeper than the ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.
SERENA WILLIAMS All my life I'd woken up to tennis, tennis, tennis. Even if I don't go to practise, I'm ...
SERENA WILLIAMS I wanted to get really fit. I wanted to lose some weight. So I've been doing Pilates and yoga, t...
SERENA WILLIAMS It's obviously extremely disappointing to have to play my sister in the next round, ... She's playin...
SERENA WILLIAMS I didn't put it on tight enough because I was rushing to go out,
SERENA WILLIAMS We're going in really fresh, ... We're going to have fresh legs and bodies, we're going to be able t...
SERENA WILLIAMS Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.
SERENA WILLIAMS It's as if I've stepped off the edge of a cliff, and even though my heart's in my mouth and my stoma...
SERENA GREY If we'd pushed a little harder, we'd have been first in the state. We have big plans for next year.
SERENA KOW The interdependent couple is the new setting and their knowledge of Self is an ancient treasure."-Se...
SERENA JADE This was never your destiny," he snapped, glaring at me with devilish eyes.

"No," I repli...
SERENA WINTER Scarface. There's a Biggie lyric, 'Never Get High on Your Own Supply' [from 'Ten Crack Commandments'...
SERENA KIM Living a life of service to others is the most powerful sermon of all, don't you think?
SERENA B. MILLER And this,' Ivan said to the children gathered around, 'is who we are, and this is what we do. Our fa...
SERENA B. MILLER A world where it is safe to love is a world where it is safe to live
SERENA ANDERLINI-D'ONOFRIO There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
IAN WILLIAMS My first job is big sister and I take that very seriously.
VENUS WILLIAMS But I like to be thought of as a good father and a good husband.
TREAT WILLIAMS After working so hard on the court, I find that snacks help me avoid late-afternoon energy lows.
VENUS WILLIAMS The essential truth is that sometimes you're worried that they'll find out it's a fluke,...
ROBIN WILLIAMS The day my son was born my life changed completely.
TREAT WILLIAMS We have a responsibility to help those around us and help others in need.
VIRGINIA WILLIAMS Sometimes I light incense and a candle. It's so peaceful and quiet. The steadiness of the energy...
CINDY WILLIAMS If you're writing fantasy or science fiction, it's really hard to do if you don't know a...
TAD WILLIAMS People may get tired of hearing from me, but I don't think I'll ever run out of things that ...
TAD WILLIAMS One of the fascinating things about researching Heaven and Hell is, of course, the fact that there a...
TAD WILLIAMS For me, any book I'm writing is also a chance to get in and research and read and learn things t...
TAD WILLIAMS My parents were perfectly open-minded about everything. They never tried to convince us of what was ...
TAD WILLIAMS I am a sandwich man. Somewhere early in life, my epigenetic switches got flicked to 'likes sandw...
TAD WILLIAMS Every major technological step forward has profoundly changed human society - that's how we know...
TAD WILLIAMS Unless technology itself is drastically repressed, the idea of the dystopian monoculture like Orwell...
TAD WILLIAMS We tell lies when we are afraid... afraid of what we don't know, afraid of what others will thin...
TAD WILLIAMS I've always been partial to werewolves, perhaps because there's a desperation to their pligh...
TAD WILLIAMS Never make your home in a place. Make a home for yourself inside your own head. You'll find what...
TAD WILLIAMS In the process of looking for comedy, you have to be deeply honest. And in doing that, you'll fi...
ROBIN WILLIAMS Peace is not wimpy. It's about sitting down and negotiating with people you hate. Ultimately, al...
BETTY WILLIAMS Everyone makes their own comments. That's how rumors get started.
VENUS WILLIAMS You have to let fear go. Another lesson is you just have to believe in yourself; you just have to. T...
VENUS WILLIAMS Some people say that I have an attitude- Maybe I do. But I think that you have to. You have to belie...
VENUS WILLIAMS Sometimes when you're making more errors you want to pull back, but I just need to keep going fo...
VENUS WILLIAMS Sports are a great place to show that equality can happen.
VENUS WILLIAMS The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.
VENUS WILLIAMS A lot of times, I don't just do juice; I do the whole thing blended to keep the fiber.
VENUS WILLIAMS Losses have propelled me to even bigger places, so I understand the importance of losing. You can ne...
VENUS WILLIAMS Of course, I want to be number one. But being happy and healthy is the most important thing.
VENUS WILLIAMS I always like to win. But I'm the big sister. I want to make sure she has everything, even if I ...
VENUS WILLIAMS I like to be busy. It's not always easy because the schedule gets busy; especially, the more suc...
VENUS WILLIAMS I'm always in search for perfection. If it's not perfect, I'm back to the drawing board.
VENUS WILLIAMS You can never get complacent because a loss is always around the corner.
VENUS WILLIAMS I guess rumors are more exciting than the truth.
VENUS WILLIAMS No matter who you are, the grass is never greener on the other side.
VENUS WILLIAMS I've always found the rain very calming.
VENUS WILLIAMS Hitting is the most important part of the game. It is where the big money is, where much of the stat...
TED WILLIAMS Baseball's future? Bigger and bigger, better and better! No question about it, it's the grea...
TED WILLIAMS I hope somebody hits .400 soon. Then people can start pestering that guy with questions about the la...
TED WILLIAMS I've found that you don't need to wear a necktie if you can hit.
TED WILLIAMS If there was ever a man born to be a hitter it was me.
TED WILLIAMS If I was being paid thirty-thousand dollars a year, the very least I could do was hit .400.
TED WILLIAMS All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
TED WILLIAMS Hitting is fifty percent above the shoulders.
TED WILLIAMS There's only one way to become a hitter. Go up to the plate and get mad. Get mad at yourself and...
TED WILLIAMS By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
TED WILLIAMS If you don't think too good, don't think too much.
TED WILLIAMS Baseball gives every American boy a chance to excel, not just to be as good as someone else but to b...
TED WILLIAMS There has always been a saying in baseball that you can't make a hitter, but I think you can imp...
TED WILLIAMS A man has to have goals - for a day, for a lifetime - and that was mine, to have people say, 'Th...
TED WILLIAMS God gets you to the plate, but once your there your on your own.
TED WILLIAMS According to my grandmother, I started singing as soon as I began talking. I always wanted to be an ...
VESTA WILLIAMS A lot of people have called me the black Bette Midler, and I regard that as a compliment.
VESTA WILLIAMS I've always felt that to deliver a song successfully, you have to be an actress. A good actress ...
VESTA WILLIAMS When I lost my record deal, and my phone wasn't ringing, I realized that I had to reassess who V...
VESTA WILLIAMS Don't you dare print my first name. That would make me sound like a real country girl.
VESTA WILLIAMS I guess I was always a ham, and I was anxious to try doing different things. I started doing impress...
VESTA WILLIAMS And at 19, you think you rule the world, and you can control things. And a lot of times, you don'...
VANESSA WILLIAMS And when people give me their word, I listen to them.
VANESSA WILLIAMS Broadway is really my life.
VANESSA WILLIAMS My parents are both teachers, so we had the summers off.
VANESSA WILLIAMS There are a lot of things that you don't realize that your parents are going through when you...
VANESSA WILLIAMS Well, my mom taught public school music for almost 40 years. And she's about 5 feet - and very m...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I love the French horn.
VANESSA WILLIAMS I am lucky to have three daughters who are completely different. I look at my daughters and I have d...
VANESSA WILLIAMS New York is my home.
VANESSA WILLIAMS You're always going to have people that are naysayers, that don't believe in your talent, th...
VANESSA WILLIAMS The wiser you get, the more experience you have, and the more you see people for who they are as hum...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I think there's a time to work, and everyone has to kind of adjust. And then there's a time ...
VANESSA WILLIAMS I don't laugh so much at jokes and premises as I do at a guy who goes onstage and starts twitchi...
HARLAND WILLIAMS Without sounding negative, I'm not a huge fan of a lot of stand-up. I'm more interested in a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS My roots are in stand-up, and stand-up is very freeing. There's no script involved; you just fly...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I hate when you go into a nice restaurant - someplace where you're going to spend good money - a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I'd done a ton of movies here in Hollywood, and I realized that every movie I'd done was som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I think a lot of people think I'm doing kind of a character onstage, but what you're really ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I grew up on Don Knotts and Jerry Lewis and all the guys from Second City.
HARLAND WILLIAMS I don't go on tour tours - I just go randomly to cities to do shows if I have an opening in my s...
HARLAND WILLIAMS The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a myster...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I used to do little sketches into my cassette tape recorder when I was a little boy. I would just tu...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I just tried to create a life for myself that's full of fun and fantasy and things that equal la...
HARLAND WILLIAMS It was such a pleasure to work with Eugene Levy. What a treat. That's a guy I grew up watching a...
HARLAND WILLIAMS If you were to come out and hang out with me, just having fun at a nightclub or a party, that's ...
HARLAND WILLIAMS In 'There's Something About Mary' and 'Dumb & Dumber,' I ended up improvisin...
HARLAND WILLIAMS What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for '...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I always improvise with the crowd. Sometimes it will be a 50 percent show, sometimes 70 percent, som...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I was walking around bored one day, and I started filming stuff with my cellphone. There are all the...
HARLAND WILLIAMS Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. W...
HARLAND WILLIAMS The problem with binge-watching on Netflix is that you lose three days of your life.
HARLAND WILLIAMS I love seafood. Whenever I'm in Las Vegas, I love going to the Bellagio buffet because they have...
HARLAND WILLIAMS I think life would be so much funnier if every day you saw someone walking down the street getting h...
HARLAND WILLIAMS Our music doesn't make many compromises, but we take it into a venue that's larger than peop...
IAN WILLIAMS It's like that Simpsons joke - they're filming a cow in a movie and they go, 'OK, we'...
IAN WILLIAMS I'm too tasteful for my pants.
IAN WILLIAMS I think one of the most boring things is a person's taste.
IAN WILLIAMS I think when I began, I played distortion more than the guitar. The results of my strumming. Now I p...
IAN WILLIAMS I definitely like the mystery of not knowing how things will turn out, you know.
IAN WILLIAMS We made happy sounds because we were upset... just trying to make a positive situation out of a nega...
IAN WILLIAMS I think there's a lot of naivete and hubris within our mix of personalities. That's probably...
IAN WILLIAMS This is fun; consuming our music shouldn't be a responsibility like eating your spinach or somet...
IAN WILLIAMS Now and then, I had moments of greatness, but I never knew how to duplicate it consistently.
IAN WILLIAMS Some people say I have attitude - maybe I do... but I think you have to. You have to believe in your...
VENUS WILLIAMS So much of what we do is ephemeral and quickly forgotten, even by ourselves, so it's gratifying ...
JOHN WILLIAMS Growing up with two sisters, you either play by yourself or play Barbie with them. I played by mysel...
RICKY WILLIAMS The moment I started treating my social anxiety disorder, I started feeling better.
RICKY WILLIAMS As human beings we have a tendency when we like something to tie it up and make sure it's there ...
RICKY WILLIAMS As an athlete, you figure you work your whole life to have what you have, and to be able to show the...
RICKY WILLIAMS A team takes on the personality of the head coach.
RICKY WILLIAMS I realized a while back that I have an innate ability to be compassionate, and I saw that the streng...
RICKY WILLIAMS When you make that crossover from life to real life, when you're not treated as a child anymore ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I definitely have come out of my shell a lot more. When you question who you are, you can't be p...
RICKY WILLIAMS I've let a lot of things go, and obviously football is one of them. I think the hardest thing to...
RICKY WILLIAMS There's nothing I miss about anything in the whole wide world. The idea of missing something mea...
RICKY WILLIAMS One thing I've learned about life is that if you really let go, it's just a joy ride.
RICKY WILLIAMS Anytime you play a team sport, the success of the team really makes everything better. It's nice...
RICKY WILLIAMS I've always been attracted to things that are taboo. I've never been afraid to go to that da...
RICKY WILLIAMS To talk about balance, it's easier to talk about what's out of balance. And I think anytime ...
RICKY WILLIAMS I have no room in my life for any form of negativity or nonacceptance.
RICKY WILLIAMS There's more to life than success, and if you can try to be more well-rounded, you'll be abl...
RICKY WILLIAMS People are hungry because they're eating empty foods. Mine are full, and so am I.
RICKY WILLIAMS