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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.

Billie Jean King

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
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
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
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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Beats Hero Reason Respected
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Performance Witnessed Sight Win
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
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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Numbers Player Thinking Younger
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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Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
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
I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Art Game Moving Player Tennis
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
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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Games Needs Pipeline Stars Tennis
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
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

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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