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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

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
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
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Since Sports Tennis Years
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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Ball Brain Feel Many Times
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
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
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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Mean Ready Therapists
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy Sports
I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Art Game Moving Player Tennis
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking

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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