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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

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
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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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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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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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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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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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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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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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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 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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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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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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 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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Don't worry about what people say.
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It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
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