"Champions keep playing until they get it right."
-Billie Jean King
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"I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.“
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"When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman."
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"If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."
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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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"In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports."
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"I wanted to use sports for social change."
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