When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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