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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: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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Tennis Coach
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Long Beach
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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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I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.
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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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I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
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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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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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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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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 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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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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Don't worry about what people say.
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