Don’t worry about what people say.
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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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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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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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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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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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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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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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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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