I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
BILLIE JEAN KINGDon’t be afraid to hit the ball.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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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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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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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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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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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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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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I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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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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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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I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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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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I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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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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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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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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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