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 Jean KingAs far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.
Billie Jean KingI 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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