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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.

Billie Jean King

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
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
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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Boys Opportunity Sports
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Business Game Team Tennis World
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
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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Learning Sports Talent Winning
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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Adults Children Pathetic Playing 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
People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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Dollars Money People
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
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

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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