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Billie Jean King: The trouble with...

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The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

Source: Billie Jean, 1982.
-- Billie Jean King, (Nov 22 1943-____), US tennis player, activist; She is the most famous woman tennis player; promoter of equal pay for women tennis and other sports professionals; won Living Legacy Award, 1985.


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