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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

Billie Jean King

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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Character Important Thinking
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Business Game Team Tennis World
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
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
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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Since Sports Tennis Years
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
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
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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Learning Sports Talent Winning
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
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week

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