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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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Tennis Coach
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Long Beach
California
Billie Jean Moffitt
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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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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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 knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.
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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 like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. 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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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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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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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
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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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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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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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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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