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.
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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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I’ll be worth a sentence or two….
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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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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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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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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Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
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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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