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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Billie Jean King

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Future Game Generation Thinking
I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Child Children More Soccer Sports
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Perfect Sports Tennis
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
BILLIE JEAN KING

Gone Important Responsibility
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
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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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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Sports Successful Young
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Competition Sports World
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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Mean Ready Therapists
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Care Sports Thinking
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Failure Matter Winning
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Character Sports Success

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