"When cerebral processes enter into sports, you start screwing up. It's like the Constitution, which says separate church and state. You have to separate mind and body."
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"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."
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"I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself."
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"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."
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"I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate."
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"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."
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"That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question."
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"Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball."
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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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"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."
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"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time."
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"I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it."
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"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."
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"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."
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"We all laughed. It was more like that whole thing that I was talking about earlier. You go to training camp and after the season is over, you might not see the guys for six months until you go back to training camp."
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"The ninth grade. I went from 5'9 to 6'8."
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"My favorite thing about being linked to Oakley is getting to hang with the cool people, the cool athletes - like the X-Games guys. Those guys play sports where they can really hurt themselves, and, well, I just play golf. I'm like the wimpy guy over here."
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"Winners are different. They're a different breed of cat."
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"Once the season starts for me, there isn't a change in my focus, just a change in my tactics and strategies."
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"But there was no question in my mind that I was gonna still go for it. I was still going for the win. I wasn't skiing for second or third place today, and in the end I think that's probably what got me there."
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