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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.

Billie Jean King

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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Dollars Finance Sports
I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Performance Witnessed Sight Win
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
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
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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Sports Successful Young
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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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
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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Becoming Correction Much Person
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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Country Some The Audience Transmit
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
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
If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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Experience Heterosexual Mean Quite
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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Games Needs Pipeline Stars Tennis
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life

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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