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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
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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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
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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Character Important Thinking
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
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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Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Focus Mean Play
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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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
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
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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Dollars Finance Sports
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
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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Marriage Moments Next

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