Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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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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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Champions take responsibility.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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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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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You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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