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Billie Jean King

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Bad Everything Long Sports Years
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
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
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
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 main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
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
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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Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
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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Goal Running Sacrifice
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
When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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Children Fun Team
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
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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Anybody Little Matter Mean Number One Ranking
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

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