As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
BILLIE JEAN KINGMarriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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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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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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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