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"I wouldn't tell Jill how I felt. I behaved in such a way that was opposite to how I felt. I must have seemed strong to her. I didn't want to bring her down."
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"But I want you to know that what I'm doing here I'm doing as a ballplayer, a major league ballplayer."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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."

"Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul."

"In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it."

"I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time."
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