I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIn the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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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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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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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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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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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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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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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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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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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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