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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
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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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It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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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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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday
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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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 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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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 think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.
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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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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 was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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