Billie Jean King Quotes
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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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There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.
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Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
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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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A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
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Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
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Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
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Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
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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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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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It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
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I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
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In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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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 would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.