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I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.

Billie Jean King

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
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
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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Girl Minister Sports Team Women President
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network… They have more companies they can get money from.
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Boys Opportunity Sports
It’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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Important People Tennis
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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Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
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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Baptism Out Over Time Person Stronger Truly Work
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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Care Sports Thinking
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women’s ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men’s tennis.
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Home Men Soccer Survive Tennis
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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Everything Numbers Second Success Way
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
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
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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Kings Law Recognition Sports
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Athletes Dreams Sports Success
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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After Firsts Lessons Life
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
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Important Moving Sports
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
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
Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Inspirational Running Sports
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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Fleeting Forever Victory
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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Bisexual Everyone Gay Inspirational
I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Future Game Generation Thinking
I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
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Hard Player Thinking Work
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
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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Mean Ready Therapists
Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Boundaries People Softer

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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