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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.

Billie Jean King

It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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Choices Craft Gratification Player Thinking
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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Important People Tennis
You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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Ball Brain Feel Many Times
People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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Dollars Money People
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
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
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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Country Some The Audience Transmit
Don’t worry about what people say.
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Naysayers People Worry
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
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
I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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Everything Numbers Second Success Way
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer

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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