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Billie Jean King

"Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity."

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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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"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 wanted to use sports for social change."
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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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"I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me."
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"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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"A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time."
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