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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.

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
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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Character Important Thinking
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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Choices Craft Gratification Player Thinking
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving 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
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
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
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
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
That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?
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Anybody Little Matter Mean Number One Ranking
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking

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