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Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.

Billie Jean King

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
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
Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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Marriage Moments Next
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Competition Sports World
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
I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Art Game Moving Player Tennis
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy 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
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
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
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
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
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking

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