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Billie Jean King
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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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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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Don't worry about what people say.
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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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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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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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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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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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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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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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 would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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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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