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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

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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Wrestling
Pressure
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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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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 would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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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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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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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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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 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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