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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.

Billie Jean King

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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Cooking Generation Winning
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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Everything Numbers Second Success Way
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
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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Father Husband Sports
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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Dollars Finance Sports
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
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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Girl Infancy Sports
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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Dedication Leadership Sports
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
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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Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
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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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Learning Sports Talent Winning
It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Birthday Down Today Upside
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Running Sports Strong
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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Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Character Sports Success

I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.

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