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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.

Billie Jean King

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Children Sports Technology
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Competition Sports World
The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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Achievement Attitude Numbers
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
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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Goal Running Sacrifice
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
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports
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
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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Debt Game Spend Tennis
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

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