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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

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
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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Doors People Race
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
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
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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Calendar Deal Players Things
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Bad Everything Long Sports Years
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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Business Fall Integrity
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
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
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’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.

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