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Billie Jean King

It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Important People Thinking
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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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Marriage Moments Next
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
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
You can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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Becoming Correction Much Person
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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Games Needs Pipeline Stars Tennis
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
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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Player Sports Thinking
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
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
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports

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