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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

Billie Jean King

I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Game Hobby Passion Pilot Say Sports Tennis
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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Choices Dream Games Opportunities Sports
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
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
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
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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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Children Sports Technology
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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Achievement Attitude Numbers
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
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
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
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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
It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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Important People Tennis

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