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Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
Sports Commentator
Tennis Coach
Tennis Player
Long Beach
California
Billie Jean Moffitt
Microcosm
Sports
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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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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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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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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 comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Champions take responsibility.
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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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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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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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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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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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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 have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
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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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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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