8.比利?簡?金

她得到的最差建議

“我不喜歡那種‘運動員達到巔峰后要激流勇退’的建議。這就像對世界排名第8的記者說：‘你過去是第一，所以現在你應該退出了。’我認為，不應該勸別人退出。不管是運動員、演員、舞蹈家，還是任何人，都值得擁有完整的職業生涯。不知道為什么，如果你是運動員，所有人都想讓你在巔峰時期退出。有人就對我這么說。我不希望有人這么說。比爾?布拉德利在為紐約尼克斯隊（Knicks）打球時，提到要擁有完滿的感覺，即職業生涯的生命周期。我喜歡這種看法。重點在于，你自己做主。別讓這個世界為你做出決定。不要讓別人定義你。你自己定義你自己。”——對R.B講述????

8.Billie Jean King

On the worst advice she ever got

"I don't like the advice that an athlete needs to go out on top. It's like telling the eighth-best journalist in the world, 'You used to be No. 1, so you should get out of the game.' I don't think you tell someone to quit. You deserve a full career, whether as an athlete, a performer, dancer, anyone. It's your choice. For some reason, for athletes, everyone wants us to quit when we're at our peak. It was what I was told, and I wish I hadn't been. Bill Bradley, when he played for the Knicks, talked about having a sense of completion, a circle of life to his career, and I like that. The important thing is, you decide. Don't let the world decide for you. Don't let others define you. You define yourself." --As told to R.B.