Billie Jean King Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.”
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“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
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“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.”
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“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”
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“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.”
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“Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.”
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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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“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.”
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“I wanted to use sports for social change.”
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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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“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.”
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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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“Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.”
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“Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.”
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“I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.”
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“Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.”
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“It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.”
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“No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.”
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“Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.”
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“The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'”
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“That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.”
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“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.”
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“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.”
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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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“I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.”
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“Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.”
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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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“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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“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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