It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
BILLIE JEAN KINGWhen 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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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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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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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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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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Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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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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