There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
BILLIE JEAN KINGDon’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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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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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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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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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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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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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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