Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
BILLIE JEAN KING
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Billie Jean King73 quotes“Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.”
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Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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 KingBillie Jean King Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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 KingBillie Jean King Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
Billie Jean KingBillie Jean King 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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