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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

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
California
Billie Jean Moffitt
Execute
Wrestling
Pressure
Winning
Comes

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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
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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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Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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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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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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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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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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