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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.

Billie Jean King

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
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
I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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Child Children More Soccer Sports
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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
It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Birthday Down Today Upside
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
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
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
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
Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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Character Important Thinking
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
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory

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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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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