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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 keep playing until they get it right.
Written by Billie Jean King
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Written by Billie Jean King
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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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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A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
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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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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 always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
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I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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 like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
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I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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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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I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.
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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 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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I wanted to use sports for social change.
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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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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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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
Written by Billie Jean King
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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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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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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It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
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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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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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Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
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Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
Written by Billie Jean King
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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