"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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"Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life."
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"I've missed more than 9000 shots in my career. I've lost almost 300 games. 26 times, I've been trusted to take the game winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over and over again in my life. And that is why I succeed."
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"The problem with winter sports is that - follow me closely here - they generally take place in winter."
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"Many men go fishing all of their lives without knowing that it is not fish they are after."
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"Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air."
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"If a tie is like kissing your sister, losing is like kissing you grandmother with her teeth out."
-George Brett
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