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Billie Jean King

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Billie Jean King
Age: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
Sports Commentator
Tennis Coach
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Long Beach
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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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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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Don't worry about what people say.
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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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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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 try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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Champions take responsibility.
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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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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 think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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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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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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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 have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.
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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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It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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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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