Billie Jean King Quotes - Page 3

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

I feel that tennis is an art form that is capable of moving the players and the audience - at least a knowledgeable audience-in almost sensual ways. When I'm performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.

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.

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That's one of the reasons I beat him - because I respected him.

Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.

Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.

I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.

You want people to feel like they belong to something. And not be elitist. You don't want us to be elitist.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

It's important to try to get people to think about women's wellness.

Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.

You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.

Champions take responsibility.

It's very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

Sports are a microcosm of society.

Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.

Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.

The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything- is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy it.

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

People say, "Do you know how much a million dollars is?" I don't have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?

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