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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.

Billie Jean King

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
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Running Sports Strong
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
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
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
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
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
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
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
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
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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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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