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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.

Billie Jean King

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 would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy Sports
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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Marriage Moments Next
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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Father Husband Sports
People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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Dollars Money People
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
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
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Focus Mean Play
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
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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Gone Important Responsibility
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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Character Important Thinking
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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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
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

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