- Perfect
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- Nov 07, 2020
Billie Jean King Quotes
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- Champion
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
- Bold
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- Nov 07, 2020
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
- Assumed
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- First Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
- Ready
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- Nov 07, 2020
Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
- Gay
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- Nov 07, 2020
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
- Help
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
- Love
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
- Nov 07, 2020
I wanted to use sports for social change.
- Nov 07, 2020
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
- Nov 07, 2020
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
- Credit
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
- Finance
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
- Differences
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
- Boy
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
Sports are a microcosm of society.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Opportunity
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- Nov 07, 2020
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was outed, it was like, That's done.
- Obsessed
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- Nov 07, 2020
No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
- Moving
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- Nov 07, 2020
At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.
- Forever
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- Nov 07, 2020
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
- Females
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- Nov 07, 2020