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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.
Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday
It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.
Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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.
My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.
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.
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'
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.
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
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.
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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!
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.
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.
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.