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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

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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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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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 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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Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].
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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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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It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
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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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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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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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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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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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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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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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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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I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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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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