In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
BILLIE JEAN KINGPressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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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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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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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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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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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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