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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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