It’s about learning your craft. That’s a wonderful thing–especially with today’s consumerism and instant gratification.
BILLIE JEAN KINGI would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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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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People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?
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That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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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 are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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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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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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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Champions take responsibility.
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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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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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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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