I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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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 just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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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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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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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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