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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

Billie Jean King

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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Father Husband Sports
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Competition Sports World
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
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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Sports Successful Young
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Love Personality Player Sports Today
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Girl Hardest Hints Tennis
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Birthday Down Today Upside
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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Child Children More Soccer Sports
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
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
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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Character Sports Success
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
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

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