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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.
Billie Jean King
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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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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. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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 think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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 think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
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When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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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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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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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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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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