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Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Billie Jean King

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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Learning Sports Talent Winning
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy Sports
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Doors People Race
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
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
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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Dedication Leadership Sports
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
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money 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
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
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Focus Mean Play
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

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