Champions take responsibility.
BILLIE JEAN KINGThe main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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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.
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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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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.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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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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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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