Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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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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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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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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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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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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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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