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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

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
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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Child Children More Soccer Sports
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
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
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
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
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
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
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
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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Dollars Finance Sports
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
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis

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