If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIf your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you.
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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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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 people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Being Number One isn’t everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it’s way ahead of whatever’s in second place.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
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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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You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.
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I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
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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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