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

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• When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

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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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• When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.

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• Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

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• They’re not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person’s circumstances are unique.

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• There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

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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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• The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

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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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• 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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• No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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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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