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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 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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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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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 grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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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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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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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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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Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
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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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