Some people do have softer boundaries.
BILLIE JEAN KINGAsk Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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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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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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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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
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