Sports are a microcosm of society.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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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 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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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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