 Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport. |
| 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. |
| I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much. |
| 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. |
| At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important. |
| It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to. |
| Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul. |
| 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. |
| I wanted to use sports for social change. |
| Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. |
| I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team. |
| A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. |
| I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time. |
| It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional. |
| If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that. |
| Champions keep playing until they get it right. |
| When I was outed, it was like, That's done. |
| I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it. |
| Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open. |
| 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. |
