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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Billie Jean King

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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Athletes Dreams Sports Success
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Girl Hardest Hints Tennis
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Inspirational Running Sports
I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Care Sports Thinking
Don’t worry about what people say.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Naysayers People Worry
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Care Educational Games
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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Experience Heterosexual Mean Quite
I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
BILLIE JEAN KING

Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Children Sports Technology
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Ball Brain Feel Many Times
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Great Made Money Sports Tennis
Sports are a microcosm of society.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Microcosm Sports

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