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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

Billie Jean King

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
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
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
Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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Marriage Moments Next
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
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
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
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
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World
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
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
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
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling

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