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 KINGThe most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are ‘accept responsibility.’
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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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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Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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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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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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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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I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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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!
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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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