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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

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
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
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
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Performance Witnessed Sight Win
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
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
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
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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Child Children More Soccer Sports
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
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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Sports Successful Young
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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Numbers Player Thinking Younger
It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Important People Thinking
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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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week

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