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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

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
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Beats Hero Reason Respected
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
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World
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
When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Children Sports Technology
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
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
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
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
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Gone Important Responsibility
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
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
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Mean Old Things Sentence Winning

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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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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