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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGSports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same 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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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