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Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

Billie Jean King

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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports
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
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
People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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Dollars Money People
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
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
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
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

Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

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