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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGSports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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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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The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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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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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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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