I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Champions take responsibility.
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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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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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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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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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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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Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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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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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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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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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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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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