Billie Jean King - Sports Quotes

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The most difficult part of everything is the finish! Whether it's a business deal, a book, a project, in sports — whatever. You can get, like, 98-99 percent there, like in a match, but it is so difficult to really finish and to win. It's like, I just got a load of clothes done, but I still have to fold them. And that will be the challenge.

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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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You've got to win in sports — that's talent — but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

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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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