Champions keep playing until they get it right.
BILLIE JEAN KINGA champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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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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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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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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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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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 think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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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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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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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