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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.

Billie Jean King

Champions take responsibility.
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Champion Responsibility Taking
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
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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Calendar Deal Players Things
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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Sports Successful Young
I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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Hard Player Thinking Work
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Motivational Sports Success Women
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Failure Matter Winning
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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Mean Ready Therapists
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
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Marriage Moments Next
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Bests Event Men Sports Team
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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Life Partners Person Private Want
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.

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