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I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

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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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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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When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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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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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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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 respect right off the bat because we are human, but then over time you learn who the person truly is, just like they learn about you. Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can't be friends with everybody.
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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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Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.
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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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