Billie Jean King Quotes - Page 2

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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.

  Billie Jean King

  Girl, Tennis, Hints

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• When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

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  Dream, Believe, People

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• Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Men, Attention

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• Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.

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  Winning, Cooking, Generations

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Sep 19, 2010

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• Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

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  Champion, Pressure, Privilege

  Daily Express, October 29, 2008.

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• Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

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  Wrestling, Winning, Pressure

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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.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Husband, Father

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• In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

  Billie Jean King

  Integrity, Fall, Doe

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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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.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Thinking, Way

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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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  Sports, History, Goes On

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 01, 2010

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• Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Volleyball, Inspirational Life, Healing

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• I always think it's best to pretend you're in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future. There's no promises in any entrepreneurial business. You have to really work hard every year and also try to envision where you want to go in the future at the same time.

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  Hard Work, Player, Thinking

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• When a child signs up for tennis, he or she is put on a team. I put them in a circle and then I make sure they name their own team. I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can't just have what they call a lesson today every week.

  Billie Jean King

  Fun, Children, Team

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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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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  Girl, Sports, Infancy Is

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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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  Sports, Successful, Young

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 18, 2010

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• Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

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  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

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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.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Thinking, Care

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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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  Sports, Men, Judging

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 01, 2010

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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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  Player, Thinking, Numbers

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• Some people do have softer boundaries.

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  People, Boundaries

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

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  Sports, People, Risk

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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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  Sports, Boys, Opportunity

  "Fool.com: TMF Interview: Billie Jean King [Special]". "The Motley Fool" David Gardner, Tom Gardner, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.

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• I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.

  Billie Jean King

  Children, Tennis, Adults

  Interview with Jonathan Scott, www.tennis.com. December 17, 2013.

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• It's about learning your craft. That's a wonderful thing--especially with today's consumerism and instant gratification. You can'tbuy that. It's about making decisions, corrections, choices. I don't think it's so much about becoming a tennis player. It's about becoming a person.

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  Player, Thinking, Choices

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• I wanted to use sports for social change.

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  Sports, Use, Social

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