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Billie Jean King

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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Given Respect Something Trust
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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Doors People Race
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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Business Game Team Tennis World
I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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Child Children More Soccer Sports
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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Running Sports Strong
When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Believe Dream People
Reputation is what others think about you. What’s far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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Character Important Thinking
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
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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Choices Dream Games Opportunities Sports
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
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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Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Great Made Money Sports Tennis
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
Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Better Getting Tennis Thinking
There’s no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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Entreprenuer Enviison Future Same Time
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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Goal Running Sacrifice
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Competition Sports World
Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.
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Asking Dancing Singing Stop
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
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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Perfect Sports Tennis
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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Dollars Money People
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
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
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
Pressure is a privilege – it only comes to those who earn it.
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Pressure Privilege Tennis
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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Girl Infancy Sports
The trouble with being number one in the world – in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don’t relax and enjoy it.
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Achievement Attitude Numbers

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