It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI 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.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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I will tell you King’s First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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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 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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Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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When I was playing, we didn’t have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it’s a truly global sport, so the competition’s much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
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