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?
BILLIE JEAN KINGWhen I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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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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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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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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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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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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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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It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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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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