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“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Success #Motivational Sports #Women

“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Inspirational #Running #Perseverance
“Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Success #Sports #Character
“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Motivational #Success #Sports
“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Perfect #Tennis
“Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Champion #Pressure #Privilege
“The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Educational #Games #Care
“You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Learning #Winning
“I wanted to use sports for social change.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Use #Social
“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.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Years #Tennis
“Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Girl #Tennis #Hints
“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.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Softball #Passion #Winning
“Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Dedication #Discipline
“Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Pressure #Privilege
“I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #People #Risk
“Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Badass #Women #Pressure
“Sports are a microcosm of society.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Microcosm
“It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Hymns #Differences #Important
“No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Inspiring #World #Changing The World
“Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him.Â That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Hero #Reason #Beats
“The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'”
-- Billie Jean King

#Responsibility #Important #Gone
“That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Opportunity #Choices
“I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me ... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Hate #Mean #Cutting
“I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Leadership #Sports #Athlete
“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.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Dream #Children #Growing Up
“I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Strong #Perfect
“Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Men #Attention
“Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Mean #Therapists #Ready
“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.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Player #Thinking #Numbers
“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.”
-- Billie Jean King

#Sports #Successful #Young

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