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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

Billie Jean King

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
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
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Girl Hardest Hints Tennis
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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Choices Craft Gratification Player Thinking
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
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
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
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
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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Games Needs Pipeline Stars Tennis
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
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

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