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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGThere’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.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience – at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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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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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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That’s why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won’t be anybody’s number one, and it’s that same old thing: if you’re not number one, then what does it really matter?
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