I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIf 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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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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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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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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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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