Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.
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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.Billie King
Missouri is home to several of the finest public tennis facilities in the nation. This one, named for the founder of the famed Davis Cup, is located in Forrest Park, the second largest public park in the country.
Billie King
Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that's when you're cooking.
Billie King
I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour and affect all women's self esteem.
Billie King
I . . . like being successful. I somehow always knew that I would succeed. I had a great sense of destiny from the time I was very young.
Billie King
She wanted to be true to herself... and she had a lot of demons because of it. I think her sexuality was difficult because I think she knew she was gay by this time, and there is no way back in the Sixties and Seventies that you were gonna talk about it.
Billie King
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