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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

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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Bad Everything Long Sports Years
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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Character Sports Success
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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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Debt Game Spend Tennis
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
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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Father Husband Sports
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
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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Cooking Generation Winning
Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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Everything Numbers Second Success Way
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
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Girl Hardest Hints Tennis
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
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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Boys Opportunity Sports
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
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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Beats Hero Reason Respected

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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