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Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

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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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.
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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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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving that's important.
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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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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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Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.
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When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?
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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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When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.
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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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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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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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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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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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