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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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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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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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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.
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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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Champions take responsibility.
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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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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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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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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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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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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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Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
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