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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGMartina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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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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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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