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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIn 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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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.
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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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