A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIt’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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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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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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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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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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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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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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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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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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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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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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