Champions keep playing until they get it right.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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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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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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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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