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Sally Ride

"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."

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"Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine."

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"Some guys are admired for coming to play, as the saying goes. I prefer those who come to kill."

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"The two championship years were that significant for me."

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"But every day I tell my story, and be comfortable with my story and be comfortable with what I've done, and what I did, and how I am today, it lessens the likelihood it will ever happen."

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"First of all, a player has to know what is banned and what is not banned."

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"Fortunately, we did most of our athletic stuff inside, so we didn't have to jog through Tribeca looking like a bunch of boot-camp hippie children."

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"I also believe our country made a promise to veterans and their families. Veterans have kept their end of the bargain, and now, the VA is looking to pull out the rug."

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"The England team must always be respected. They always fight to the end."

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"I have a need to play intensely every day, to fight every match hard."

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"I didn't really decide that I wanted to be an astronaut for sure until the end of college."
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"Once you are assigned to a flight, the whole crew is assigned at the same time, and then that crew trains together for a whole year to prepare for that flight."
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"Well, we spend an awful lot of our time working and doing experiments. It's very busy up on the shuttle."
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"The most anxious time was during launch, just because that is so dramatic."
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"On a standard space shuttle crew, two of the astronauts have a test pilot background - the commander and the pilot."
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"So I decided on science when I was in college."
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"I was always very interested in science, and I knew that for me, science was a better long-term career than tennis."
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"So most astronauts getting ready to lift off are excited and very anxious and worried about that explosion - because if something goes wrong in the first seconds of launch, there's not very much you can do."
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"So I saw many planets, and they looked just a little bit brighter than they do from Earth."
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"For quite some time, women at NASA only had scientific backgrounds."
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