People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
BILLIE JEAN KINGIn 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get 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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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 was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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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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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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You’ve got to win in sports – that’s talent – but you’ve also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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