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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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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 like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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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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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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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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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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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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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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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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Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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