Sports are a microcosm of society.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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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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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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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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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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Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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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 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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