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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI 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.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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.
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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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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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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 was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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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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Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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