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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
Billie Jean King
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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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Long Beach
California
Billie Jean Moffitt
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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?
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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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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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