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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.
Billie Jean King
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Billie Jean King
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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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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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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Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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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. 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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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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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I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
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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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