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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Billie Jean King

It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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Choices Craft Gratification Player Thinking
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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Important People Tennis
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Business Game Team Tennis World
You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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Learning Sports Talent Winning
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
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
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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Sports Successful Young
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
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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Experience Heterosexual Mean Quite
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Important People Thinking
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
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
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports

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