I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
BILLIE JEAN KINGThere 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.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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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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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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