Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
BILLIE JEAN KINGWinning 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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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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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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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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It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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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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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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