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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

Billie Jean King

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Since Sports Tennis Years
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
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Game Hobby Passion Pilot Say Sports Tennis
When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Children Sports Technology
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
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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Sports Successful Young
I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Art Game Moving Player Tennis
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
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
There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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Entreprenuer Enviison Future Same Time
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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Calendar Deal Players Things

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