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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
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Tennis Coach
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Long Beach
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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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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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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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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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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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Champions take responsibility.
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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 would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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Don't worry about what people say.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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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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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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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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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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