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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

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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Adults Children Pathetic Playing Tennis
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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Important People Thinking
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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Learning Sports Talent Winning
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Motivational Sports Success
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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Character Sports Success
I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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Numbers Player Thinking Younger
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Birthday Down Today Upside
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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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
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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Achievement Attitude Numbers
Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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Badass Boxing Women
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
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Doors People Race
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis

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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