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Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

Billie Jean King

It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Birthday Down Today Upside
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Character Sports Success
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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Mean Ready Therapists
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
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
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
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
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
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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Everything Numbers Second Success Way
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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Important People 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
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
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

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