There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIt’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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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.
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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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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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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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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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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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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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