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People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

Billie Jean King

Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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Cooking Generation Winning
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
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
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
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
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
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
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
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
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis

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