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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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
Privilege
Pressure
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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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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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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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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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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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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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In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two.... That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?
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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 always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
Billie Jean King
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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