I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
BILLIE JEAN KINGMen 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.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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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.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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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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Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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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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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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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