Champions take responsibility.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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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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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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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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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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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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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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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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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Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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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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The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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