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Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.

Billie Jean King

I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
BILLIE JEAN KING

After Firsts Lessons Life
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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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World
You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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Calendar Deal Players Things
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
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Gone Important Responsibility
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Girl Hardest Hints 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
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
I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Performance Witnessed Sight Win
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
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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Since Sports Tennis Years
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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Baptism Out Over Time Person Stronger Truly Work
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
In 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.
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Dollars Finance Sports
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Microcosm Sports

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