Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
BILLIE JEAN KINGEveryone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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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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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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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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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.
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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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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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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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