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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

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
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports
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
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
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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Kings Law Recognition Sports
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
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 always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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Baptism Out Over Time Person Stronger Truly Work
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
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
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
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
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
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women

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