If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
BILLIE JEAN KINGEach point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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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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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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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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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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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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