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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

Billie Jean King

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
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
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 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
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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Boys Opportunity Sports
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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Dedication Leadership Sports
You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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Ball Brain Feel Many Times
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk 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
I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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Child Children More Soccer Sports

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