"In the seventies we had to make it……" — Billie Jean King
"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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78 Quotes by Billie Jean King
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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…
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Don't be afraid to hit the ball.
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For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.
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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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No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along the way,…
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You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and…
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Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that…
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Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.
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Create your legacy, and pass the baton.
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It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy…
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Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that…
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Today we often think that before we start living a religious life we have first to accept the creedal doctrines…
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Choice of attention - to pay attention to this and ignore that - is to the inner life what choice…
— Wystan Hugh Auden
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If two friends ask you to judge a dispute, don't accept, because you will lose one friend; on the other…
— Saint Augustine
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Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do…
— Marcus Aurelius
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets,…
— Teresa of Avila
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The power of the white world is threatened whenever a black man refuses to accept the white world's definitions.
— James A. Baldwin
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Sometimes I have wrinkles, in the morning. It depends on what kind of night that I had. I accept myself…
— Antonio Banderas
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I tell you the solemn truth, that the doctrine of the Trinity is not so difficult to accept for a…
— Henry Adams
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But the leaders of the OIC could not even accept Mahathir's proposal, yet they talk about respect and honour.
— Abu Bakar Bashir
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Any man who does not accept the conditions of life sells his soul.
— Charles Baudelaire
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During the campaign for re-election, Barack Obama at least made vague references to a willingness to accept $3 trillion of…
— Bob Beauprez
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I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity.
— Simone de Beauvoir
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