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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.

Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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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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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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 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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Don't worry about what people say.
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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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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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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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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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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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The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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