Billie Jean King Quotes About Sports
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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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Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
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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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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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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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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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Sports are a microcosm of society.
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I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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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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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I think if you're put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they're on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
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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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At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.
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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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Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network... They have more companies they can get money from.
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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.
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In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.
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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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Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
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Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.
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I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
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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 would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
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Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
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In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
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I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.
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I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
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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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