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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
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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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 like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Don't let anyone define you. You define 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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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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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
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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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