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.
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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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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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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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It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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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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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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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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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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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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