Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
BILLIE JEAN KINGChampions keep playing until they get it right.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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It’s important to try to get people to think about women’s wellness.
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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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Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
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Champions take responsibility.
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You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times it is there.
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I didn’t really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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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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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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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
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Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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