That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
BILLIE JEAN KINGSome people do have softer boundaries.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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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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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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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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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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Champions take responsibility.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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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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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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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.
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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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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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