You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
BILLIE JEAN KINGWhen 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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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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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