Billie Jean King Quotes

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

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.

I like entrepreneurial people I like people who take risks.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net you can be sure I want the ball.

If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.

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.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

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.

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.