Champions take responsibility.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIn business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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Don’t go into debt and don’t spend a lot. It’s not how much money you make, it’s how much you spend.
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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 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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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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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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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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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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Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.
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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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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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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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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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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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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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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