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"Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best."
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"Like everyone else, I've had moments when I've felt that I've been losing my grip."
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"Two things scare me. The first is getting hurt. But that's not nearly as scary as the second, which is losing."
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"Here's a very good rule of thumb in politics: losing begets losing."
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"If you're afraid of losing, then you daren't win."
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"I don't think I'll ever fully get over losing the city council seat. I don't know how that happened. But it was less than 1 percent out of 50,000 votes. I'd put in six or seven years into changing L.A."
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"I don't mind losing, but I don't like losing to cheats."
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"Losing my parents was probably the hardest and deepest blow from which I've had to recover."
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"If you can accept losing, you can't win."
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"I never think about losing."
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"Losing is not in my vocabulary."
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"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
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"Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose."
Time

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

"When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis."
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"Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best."
Losing

"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."
Life

"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."
People

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

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That 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."
Life
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