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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

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
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
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
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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Children Fun Team
I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Performance Witnessed Sight Win
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
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
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
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
You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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Calendar Deal Players Things
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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Beats Hero Reason Respected
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
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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Boys Opportunity Sports

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