A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
BILLIE JEAN KINGLadies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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