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If I had to write a novel, I'd start crying after three lines.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Crying
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I haven't always been as gracious a loser as I could have been.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Gracious
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I have horrible handwriting, horrible spelling and horrible grammar.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Grammar
Handwriting
Horrible
Spelling
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Being a 6-foot-tall tennis player is not great for a girl's social life.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Social Life
Tennis Player
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I got to one Grand Slam final, and that's what you shoot for as a player.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Slam
Grand
Grand Slam
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I didn't mean to offend anybody. It's my filter. I constantly work on it.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Mean
Offend
Anybody
Constantly
Filter
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The pace of play is very important whether I'm watching baseball, tennis or golf.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Pace
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Living in Los Angeles and having three little kids, it's hard following the Orioles.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Little Kids
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In regular tournaments, players throw in the towel occasionally for one reason or another.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Tournaments
Occasionally
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The microphone is open. There is no delay. If I see something and want to say it right now, I can.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Delay
Microphone
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Have a living will if you don't want long-term life support. It makes the decision easier for the family.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Long Term
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My office is just off my master bedroom. One of my theories is I needed to double-door it with three kids at home.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Bedroom
Theories
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I love women's tennis, and I want it to do well. But I don't want to pander. I don't have to be warm and fuzzy. I just want to be respected.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Fuzzy
Warm
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Eventually I ran for the board of the WTA, lost my first attempt, got on the board my second attempt, and stayed there through most of my career.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Attempt
Stayed
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To be part of the big picture, whether it's celebrity interviews or seeing how big the U.S. Open is in New York or on the world stage, is amazing.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Big Picture
World Stage
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Even when I played, if they gave me the microphone after a match, whether a doubles final or a singles final, I'd handle the microphone pretty well.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Singles
Doubles
Microphone
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I feel like the NBA, WNBA, tennis and basketball have really been at the forefront of social justice and pushing for change from the athlete platform.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Athlete
Basketball
Nba
Pushing
Social Justice
Tennis
Wnba
Forefront
Platform
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You realize as an athlete that there is a bit of a clock, and you don't want to look back on a career and say, 'I wish I had done this a bit differently.'
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Clock
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I've learned to really appreciate the courtside position and the art of picking up certain subtleties. Player expression you can't see from a camera angle, or the booth.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Angle
Booth
Picking
Subtleties
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It was quite the intimidating Sunday afternoon, US Open finals day for me. Sixteen years old, the 16th seed, second major, first US Open, as an amateur, playing Chris Evert.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Afternoon
Finals
Intimidating
Sixteen
Sunday
Amateur
Quite
Open
Chris
Major
Second
Seed
Sunday Afternoon
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You have to make sure the players know to be accessible, and that's part of their job. That's why you earn a lot of money. There's a public relations, fan-friendly part of it.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Public Relations
Earn
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But politics is something that would require so much of me. I'm a public figure now, but as a politician... It's more likely that I'll become a sportscaster than a politician.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Public Figure
Require
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I was given advice early in the quarantine: Don't focus on what you don't have. Focus on what you do have and will have again, and I've said that to myself over and over again.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Advice
Focus
Given
Said
Again
Early
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Well they do have drug testing at all the majors and there will be a lot of speculation about what in the world is wrong with Serena Williams and we will find out as much as we can.
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Drug
Speculation
World
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I am so worried about my shoulder, which aches now as I write. The pain is frightening because of its intensity. I want so much to get rid of this pain. I must be strong. I must be strong.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Intensity
Aches
Be Strong
Rid
Shoulder
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There's always a time in a relationship when you can pull back. Three years ago when I realized I was falling for a guy with a complicated medical history, I decided not to exit. Believe me, I made the right decision.
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Exit
Right Decision
Falling
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I became president of the players' association and was willing to have conversations with influential people about equal prize money or how the tour could be promoted and structured in a way to make women's tennis better.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Association
Influential
Prize
Conversations
Promoted
Structured
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When I was 13, tennis became more of my life. It's when I gave up skiing, I gave up winter sports. I still played varsity basketball my freshman year of high school - basketball was the last sport I gave up for my tennis.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Freshman
Freshman Year
Skiing
Winter
Life Sports My Life
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A major final to a tennis player is sacred ground. Short of any type of serious injury - soft-tissue tears, serious orthopedic injuries or a major illness like throwing up, dehydration or cramping - you keep going, especially in the final of a Slam.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Illness
Sacred
Serious
Slam
Tears
Tennis
Tennis Player
Throwing
Type
Short
Ground
Injuries
Major
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I took more anti-inflammatories probably than anybody in my 20 years of playing and I know what that terrible stomach pain can be. I also know what terrible menstruation cramps can be, as most women tennis players have, to the point where you feel nauseous, but you just play on.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Stomach
Cramp
Tennis Players
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People all the time try to take my outside interests and make them a negative. My life has always been like that and it always will be like that. I don't think it necessarily means that while I'm concentrating on tennis I can't put 100% into it. If I didn't have 100 different interests, I probably wouldn't be as good a player.
Pam Shriver / Tennis Player
Concentrating
Life Time Good
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