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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.

Billie Jean King

When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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Country Some The Audience Transmit
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports
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
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
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
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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Children Fun Team
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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Children Sports Technology
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
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
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Important People Thinking
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
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
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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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President

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