I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything’s very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Don’t worry about what people say.
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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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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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I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Champions take responsibility.
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn’t allowed in a photo because I wasn’t wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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