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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.

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
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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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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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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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.
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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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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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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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Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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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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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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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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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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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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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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