Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
BILLIE JEAN KINGDon’t be afraid to hit the ball.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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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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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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I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, “What are your children playing?” And most of the time it’s not tennis. It’s pathetic.
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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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