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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
Billie Jean King
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Billie Jean King
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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Long Beach
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Billie Jean Moffitt
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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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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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I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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