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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.

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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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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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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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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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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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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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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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 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 like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way, I must keep my sights on the final goal, to win, win, win-and with more love and passion than the world has ever witnessed in any performance.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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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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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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Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.
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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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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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