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• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

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• If you’re up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys.

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• Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing.

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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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• 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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• 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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• A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

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• 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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• I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

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• At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.

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• I have a lot to say, and if I’m not No. 1, I can’t say it.

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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 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 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 knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.

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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 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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Billie Jean King (53)

Birth:	22nd November, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women's doubles, and 11 mixed doubles titles. King won the singles title at the inaugural WTA Tour Championships. King often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, King was the United States' captain in the Federation Cup.

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• 1977 - Tom Welling
• 1916 - Morris West
• 1710 - Thomas Reid
• 1889 - Vicente Aleixandre
• 1956 - Koo Stark

Deaths

• 2004 - Lee Loevinger
• 2005 - Augusto Roa Bastos
• 2003 - Peter Stone
• 1969 - Morihei Ueshiba
• 1989 - Lucille Ball