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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.

Billie Jean King

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Since Sports Tennis Years
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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Business Fall Integrity
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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Goal Running Sacrifice
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
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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Cooking Generation Winning
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
I 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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Numbers Player Thinking Younger
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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Father Husband Sports

I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.

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