"I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport."
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"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me."
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"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!"
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"Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul."
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"I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it."
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"When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about."
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"I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does."
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"I think if you're put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they're on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun."
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"Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals."
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"At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important."
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"I wanted to play in the NBA, I wanted to play sports, I wanted to do all this. And I have. I think I am becoming a man."
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"I think it is going to be wonderful. I went to the Paralympics in Beijing and have seen how brilliant the sport is at first hand. People are going to love it. It is going to change people's attitudes to Paralympians and it is going to be a great show."
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"I don't like comparisons with football. Baseball is an entirely different game. You can watch a tight, well-played football game,but it isn't exciting if half the stadium is empty. The violence on the field must bounce off a lot of people. But you can go to a ball park on a quiet Tuesday afternoon with only a few thousand people in the place and thoroughly enjoy a one-sided game. Baseball has an aesthetic, intellectual appeal found in no other team sport."
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"What are the critical success factors of your job? What must you be absolutely, positively excellent at doing to be successful?"
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"As we watch the world embrace the Olympics in the coming days, let us remember why the modern Olympics came into being: to bring nations closer together, to have the youth of the world compete in sports, rather than fight in war. As long as we believe our own war-driven thoughts, there will always be war, in ourselves, in our families, and in our world. As long as we believe our thoughts, there will always be war."
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"The toughest part of the whole damn sport is the X Factor. To me, the X factor is your soul. It's your courage. It's your unique driving force. Suppose for a moment that [you] and I were [running]. Suppose that in every possible way-physical and mental-we were identical. Which one of us would emerge as the champion?"
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"Rowing is such a fine sport. Everyone goes backward, and the leader can see his opponents as they struggle in vain."
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"People in the U.S. will watch anything if it's put in front of their face over and over again. I like to see what's possible, more than anything."
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"When you back off, it's easier to do mistakes. For me it's better to ski fast."
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"I like to feel that I understand little things about sports."
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