Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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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.
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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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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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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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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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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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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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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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When 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.
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I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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