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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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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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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 grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.
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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 putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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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 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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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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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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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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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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