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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: 80
Born: 1943
Born: November 22
Sports Commentator
Tennis Coach
Tennis Player
Long Beach
California
Billie Jean Moffitt
Sports

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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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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 think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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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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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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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 self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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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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 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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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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