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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.

Billie Jean King

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
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
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
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
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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Baptism Out Over Time Person Stronger Truly Work
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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Dedication Leadership Sports
You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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Becoming Correction Much Person
I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
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
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
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
I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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Hard Player Thinking Work

Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.

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