I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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.’
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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 can’tbuy that. It’s about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don’t think it’s so much about becoming a tennis player. It’s about becoming a person.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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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.
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Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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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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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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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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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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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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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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