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 KINGYou 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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Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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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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When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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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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