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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
Volleyball
Ball
Balls
Healing
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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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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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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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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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Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.
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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 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 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 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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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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 like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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 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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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Don't worry about what people say.
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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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