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Champions take responsibility.

Billie Jean King

That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?
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Anybody Little Matter Mean Number One Ranking
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
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
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Bad Everything Long Sports Years
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
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
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
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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Calendar Deal Players Things
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
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 would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Running Sports Strong
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 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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Gone Important Responsibility

Champions take responsibility.

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