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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.

Billie Jean King

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Father Husband Sports
You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Ball Brain Feel Many Times
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Bests Event Men Sports Team
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Badass Boxing Women
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Asking Dancing Singing Stop
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Dollars Finance Sports
Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Everything Numbers Second Success Way
You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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Learning Sports Talent Winning
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Character Important Thinking
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
BILLIE JEAN KING

Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Entreprenuer Enviison Future Same Time
I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Numbers Player Thinking Younger
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Great Made Money Sports Tennis
When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Country Some The Audience Transmit
It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Important People Tennis

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