Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
BILLIE JEAN KINGThe old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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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.
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It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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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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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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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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