At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
BILLIE JEAN KINGPressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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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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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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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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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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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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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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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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Men 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.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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