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Billie Jean King

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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Bad Everything Long Sports Years
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
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Care Educational Games
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
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
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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Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Pressure Winning Wrestling
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
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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Beats Hero Reason Respected
Ladies, here’s a hint. If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That’s the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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Girl Hardest Hints Tennis
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.
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Performance Witnessed Sight Win
We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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Country President Thinking
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Focus Mean Play
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Champion Pressure Privilege
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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Father Husband Sports

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