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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

Billie Jean King

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 KING

Becoming Correction Much Person
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
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
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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Bisexual Everyone Gay Inspirational
I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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Care Sports Thinking
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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Children Fun Team
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
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy Sports
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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Goal Running Sacrifice
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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Achievement Attitude Numbers
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Focus Mean Play
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

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