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You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

Billie Jean King

Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Mean Ready Therapists
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
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Calendar Deal Players Things
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

Everything Numbers Second Success Way
I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Hard Player Thinking Work
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Country President 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.
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Child Children More Soccer Sports
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Business Game Team Tennis World
Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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Debt Game Spend Tennis
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Motivational Sports Success Women
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Girl Minister Sports Team Women President

You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

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You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

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