It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
BILLIE JEAN KINGThe most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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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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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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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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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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