Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
BILLIE JEAN KINGYou just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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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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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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 I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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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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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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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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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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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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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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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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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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