In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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 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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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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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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Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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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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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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