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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!

Billie Jean King

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
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
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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Sports Successful Young
You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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Calendar Deal Players Things
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
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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Mean Ready Therapists
Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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Character Important Thinking
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
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
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
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

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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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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