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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

Billie Jean King

The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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Achievement Attitude Numbers
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
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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Kings Law Recognition Sports
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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Choices Dream Games Opportunities Sports
In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Mean Old Things Sentence Winning
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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Dedication Leadership Sports
In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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Business Fall Integrity
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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Calendar Deal Players Things
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Gone Important Responsibility
I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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Player Sports Thinking
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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Country President Thinking
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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Doors People Race
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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Boys Opportunity Sports
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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Children Sports Technology

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