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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.

Billie Jean King

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
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
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
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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Choices Dream Games Opportunities Sports
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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Dedication Leadership Sports
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
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 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
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
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
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
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

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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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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