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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
Sports Commentator
Tennis Coach
Tennis Player
Long Beach
California
Billie Jean Moffitt
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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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 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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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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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
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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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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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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 we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.
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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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