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.
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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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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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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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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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It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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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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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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