Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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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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It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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