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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
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
Billie Jean King
Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
Billie Jean King
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
Billie Jean King
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
Billie Jean King
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
I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
Billie Jean King
The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
Billie Jean King
Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to accept responsibility for the consequences every time I hit a ball.
Billie Jean King
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
Billie Jean King
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.
Billie Jean King
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
Billie Jean King
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
Billie Jean King
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
Billie Jean King
I wanted to use sports for social change.
Billie Jean King
I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
Billie Jean King
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.
Billie Jean King
I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.
Billie Jean King
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
Billie Jean King
Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
Billie Jean King
I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.
Billie Jean King
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
Billie Jean King
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