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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGThat’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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 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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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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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I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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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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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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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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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 would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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