Billie Jean King Quotes

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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• I've never been far from the river. I'm sort of like a Thames-nymph.

  

  Natalie Dormer
  • Like
  • Never
  • River

• If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window.

  

  Samuel Beckett
  • Body
  • Window
  • Throw

• I've had death threats, if you can imagine.

  

  Pat Boone
  • Death
  • You
  • Imagine

• You hear a few people saying that, you know, maybe some of the past male players like to watch me play or whatever else, just because I play a bit differently and maybe they can relate to it a bit more with a bigger forehand rather than a backhand, good serve and whatnot.

  

  Samantha Stosur
  • People
  • Good
  • Past

• When I saw 'Blade Runner,' my understanding was that 'Blade Runner' and 'Alien' were sequels to each other - or they were related. They were set in the same world.

  

  Damon Lindelof
  • World
  • Understanding
  • Alien

• There's a bootleg album that was recorded when I was 14 or 15, a compilation of things live at different clubs. Songs like Girl from Ipanema and Cry Me A River. I don't know what the title of it is.

  

  Edgar Winter
  • Girl
  • Me
  • Songs

• If my drug Ragaglitazar had been successful, we would have been getting royalties of thousands of crore rupees every year.

  

  Kallam Anji Reddy
  • Successful
  • Drug
  • Year

• My goal is always the same: to keep the other player from ever scoring a point. That doesn't always happen, but that's what I try for.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Player
  • Goal
  • Same

• It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

  

  Valentino Rossi
  • Know
  • Problem
  • Yes

• There's three networks you want to be on: It's either AMC, HBO, or Showtime.

  

  Aaron Paul
  • Want
  • You
  • Three

• I try to come at fitness and nutrition from a perspective of gentleness and what will make me feel good afterwards. I try to stay out of the mindset of needing to fix myself. I do whatever seems fun to me.

  

  Taylor Schilling
  • Good
  • Fun
  • Myself

• I'm 64 years old and, yeah, I went through a transition in my life last year, with the death of my son, that woke me up to a lot of things. You know, I'm perfectly happy in my own little groove. Marching along, building my company, and you know, a happy person.

  

  Carl Paladino
  • Life
  • Up
  • Happy

• Deserve your dream.

  

  Octavio Paz
  • Dream
  • Motivational
  • Deserve

• We've had a number 1 album in the UK and that was a really big thing for me. So now all we've got to do is do it in America and that will have the domino effect of doing it across the rest of the world.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • World
  • America
  • Me

• I'm very proud of the fact that I'm one of Britain's biggest selling poets. That gives me a huge amount of pleasure.

  

  Felix Dennis
  • Proud
  • Pleasure
  • Fact

• I do not believe in hypocrisy.

  

  Vijay Mallya
  • Believe
  • Hypocrisy

• The little jihad is over, and now we have the bigger jihad - the bigger battle is achieving security and economic growth.

  

  Mahmoud Abbas
  • Growth

• In response to 4 Good job. More public indecency, less TSA, that's what I say.

  

  Linus Torvalds
  • Good
  • Job

• I'd love to give my girls a traditional Thanksgiving with turkey and all that jazz, but we've raised them to love Tuscan food so much that they don't care for it. My favorite is a nice polenta with beef stew and broccoli rabe on the side.

  

  Debi Mazar
  • Food
  • Nice
  • Thanksgiving

• I don't usually watch a lot of TV, but 'Mad Men' changed my perspective. I admire Matthew Weiner who came up with the idea and wrote such a great TV series, and the broadcasting company for being bold enough to air such a series.

  

  Park Chan-wook
  • Up
  • Great
  • Men

• I started to shed the monstrous aesthetic affectation of my youth so as to make room for the monstrous philistine postures of middle age, but it was some years before I was bold enough to decline an invitation to 'Hamlet' on the grounds that I knew who won.

  

  Quentin Crisp
  • Age
  • Bold
  • Aesthetic

• Your hair may be brushed, but your mind's untidy,You've had about seven hours' sleep since Friday,No wonder you feel that lost sensation;You're sunk from a riot of relaxation.

  

  Ogden Nash
  • Mind
  • May
  • Lost

• We live in a society in which spurious realities are manufactured by the media, by governments, by big corporations, by religious groups, political groups. I ask, in my writing, 'What is real?' Because unceasingly we are bombarded with pseudo realities manufactured by very sophisticated people using very sophisticated electronic mechanisms.

  

  Philip K. Dick
  • People
  • Writing
  • Live

• Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

  

  Billie Jean King
  • Bold