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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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
Billie Jean Moffitt
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It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.
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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 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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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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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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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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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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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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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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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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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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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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