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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
Billie Jean Moffitt
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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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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.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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 think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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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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