Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
BILLIE JEAN KINGReputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Champions take responsibility.
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I 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.
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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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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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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I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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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 would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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