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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
Execute
Wrestling
Pressure
Winning
Comes

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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 let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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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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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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I always respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
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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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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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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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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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