Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play,… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that.… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I think if you're put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
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… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee… — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad. — Billie Jean King Copy Share Image
