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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.

Billie Jean King

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
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
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Gone Important Responsibility
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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Care Sports Thinking
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy Sports
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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Goal Running Sacrifice
I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Game Hobby Passion Pilot Say Sports Tennis
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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Choices Craft Gratification Player Thinking
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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Children Fun Team
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
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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Ball Brain Feel Many Times

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