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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
Sports Commentator
Tennis Coach
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Long Beach
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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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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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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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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 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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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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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.
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Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain...and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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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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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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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.
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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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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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