Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIf your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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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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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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