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If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment... quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

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Billie Jean and I have a very special relationship. We were perceived as different in the beginning, but now we laugh because we are very much alike. We're strong, we're stubborn. In a lot of ways free spirits, open-minded.

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In America we're looking for future stars and we're coming up short a bit, ... There is so much now to choose from. In the '70s (when Evert was the No. 1 player) we didn't have women's basketball and soccer. A lot of our great athletes are going into other sports. But worldwide tennis has made a big jump.

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The fact that two of the grandest stages for women's sport, Wimbledon and Roland Garros, still do not treat women equal to the men is a black mark on the sport.

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For Monica (Seles) and I, this isn't work. It's our pleasure to help out. It's in our blood. This isn't work, it's more about responsibility, and it's a pleasure to do.

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I was a 16-year-old schoolgirl more concerned about the boy I liked. I came from a Catholic, very protective family, so I didn't even understand women's lib back in those days. She had to be the Gloria Steinem of women's sports.

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Without getting into it, just that I'm not as goody two-shoes as people think. I'm a normal woman. I've dated a lot of guys, I've had a few drinks, I've cursed, I've been rude to my parents.

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If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

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She's great for the game. She has that combination of glamour and hard work ethic, ... I think her motives are pure as far as, it means more to her to win tennis tournaments than to be on the cover of a magazine.

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I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

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When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

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Every time I played a pro from then on, I never felt intimidated or felt like there was such a big gap. I always felt like there's no pressure.

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Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

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If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

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Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

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I'm not an overly ambitious person I don't feel like I have to excel.

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