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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGA champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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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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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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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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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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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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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for 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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