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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

Billie Jean King

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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Since Sports Tennis Years
Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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Debt Game Spend Tennis
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Bad Everything Long Sports Years
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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Goal Running Sacrifice
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World
We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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Country President Thinking
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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Kings Law Recognition Sports
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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Learning Sports Talent Winning
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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Important People Tennis
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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Done Like Outed
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
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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Father Husband Sports
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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Character Important Thinking
Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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Cooking Generation Winning
I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Game Hobby Passion Pilot Say Sports Tennis

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

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