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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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Billie Jean Moffitt
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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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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, women got 59 cents on the dollar now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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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 always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.
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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
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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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