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"It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. 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."
"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."
"Create your legacy, and pass the baton."
"I wanted to use sports for social change."
"In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity."
"Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure."
"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."
"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."
"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."
"Sports are a microcosm of society."
"Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever."
"I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life."
"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it."
"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 didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself."
"I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you."
"I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate."
"Don't be afraid to hit the ball."
"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."
"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question."