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It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

Billie Jean King

I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Player Sports Thinking
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
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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Becoming Correction Much Person
Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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Debt Game Spend Tennis
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
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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Choices Dream Games Opportunities Sports
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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Achievement Attitude Numbers
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Girl Hardest Hints Tennis
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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Mean Ready Therapists
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
We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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Country President Thinking
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
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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Sports Successful Young
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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Experience Heterosexual Mean Quite

It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

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