I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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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.
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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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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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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