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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.

Billie Jean King

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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Hard Player Thinking Work
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
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.
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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Children Sports Technology
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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Care Sports Thinking
It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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Important People Tennis
We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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Country President Thinking
You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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Becoming Correction Much Person
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Gone Important Responsibility
I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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Baptism Out Over Time Person Stronger Truly Work

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.

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