The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
BILLIE JEAN KINGChampions take responsibility.
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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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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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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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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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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