A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
BILLIE JEAN KINGVictory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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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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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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I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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