When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
BILLIE JEAN KINGPressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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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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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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It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
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I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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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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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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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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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There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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