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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGThe main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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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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That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?
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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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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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Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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