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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
Tennis Player
Long Beach
California
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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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 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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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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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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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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Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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 try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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Champions take responsibility.
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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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Don't worry about what people say.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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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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