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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

Billie Jean King

I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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Hard Player Thinking Work
When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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Country Some The Audience Transmit
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
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
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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Entreprenuer Enviison Future Same Time
You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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Becoming Correction Much Person
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
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
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
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
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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Father Husband Sports
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Character Sports Success
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
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
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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Doors People Race
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
Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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Cooking Generation Winning
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling

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