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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.

Billie Jean King

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
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
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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Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
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
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
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
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
I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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Player Sports Thinking
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Running Sports Strong
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
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
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

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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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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