Some people do have softer boundaries.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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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.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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.
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You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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