If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
BILLIE JEAN KINGWhen you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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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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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.
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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.
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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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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.
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I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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