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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

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
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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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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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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.
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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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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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Don't worry about what people say.
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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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We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain...and yet the US of A still hasn't had a women president. It's just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.
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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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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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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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