I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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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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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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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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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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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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 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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