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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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Billie Jean King
Age: 81
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
Sports Commentator
Tennis Coach
Tennis Player
Long Beach
California
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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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You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.
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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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I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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I always think it's best to pretend you're in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future. There's no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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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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