Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.
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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 always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
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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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.
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I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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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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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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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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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 am a hero worshiper. I love the number one tennis player. I love the number one baseball player. I want to see those records broken.
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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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When I was outed, it was like, That's done.
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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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No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
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At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.
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Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
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