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Yeah. I'm amateurish. I can play enough to write a song, or strum on a little guitar to write out a song. But, I don't play well at all. I wouldn't even attempt for a second to play in public. ↗


— Ben E. King


#enough #even #guitar #i #i can

You were able to sing something they related to instantly, because it was part of what you felt. It was part of what you had already traveled through. It's part of the people you were associating with daily. It was all of that. ↗


— Ben E. King


#already #because #daily #felt #had

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#character #feels #know #life #like

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#champion #i #i think #important #important thing

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#could #credit #credit card #father #get

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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#exchange #how #just #look #many

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#keep #keep moving #moving #want #you

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. ↗


— Billie Jean King


#because #change #day #ever #i






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