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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.

Billie Jean King

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
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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Beats Hero Reason Respected
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports 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.
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Character Sports Success
Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Healing Inspirational Life Volleyball
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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Doors People Race
Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Art Game Moving Player Tennis
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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Inspiring Obsession World
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
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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Becoming Correction Much Person
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust

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