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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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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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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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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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When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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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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I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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