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Don't worry about what people say.

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
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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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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I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.
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You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.
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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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Some people do have softer boundaries.
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When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
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It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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I like to see what future generations are thinking about.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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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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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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I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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