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.
BILLIE JEAN KINGAs far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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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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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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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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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Don’t be afraid to hit the ball.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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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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