I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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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.
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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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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 important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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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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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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