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I wanted to use sports for social change.

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
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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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.
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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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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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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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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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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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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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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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