Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
BILLIE JEAN KINGMen 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.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Champions take responsibility.
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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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.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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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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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.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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