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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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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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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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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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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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 take responsibility.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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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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The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
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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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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Don't worry about what people say.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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