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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

Billie Jean King

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?
BILLIE JEAN KING

Dollars Money People
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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Business Game Team Tennis World
You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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Goal Running Sacrifice
I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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Care Sports Thinking
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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Calendar Deal Players Things
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Game Hobby Passion Pilot Say Sports Tennis
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
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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Mean Ready Therapists
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
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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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports

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