Billie Jean King Quotes about Sports - Page 2

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.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

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

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

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

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I grew up in team sports. I think I understand the psyche of America. I think when children sign up to play, it's got to be team.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every year. You have to deal with calendar. You have to deal with all kinds of things in our sport, like every sport does.

I think if you're put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they're on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.

When I was playing, we didn't have to compete against everybody in the world. Now it's a truly global sport, so the competition's much greater, just like it is for our children in every other area, whether it be in science or technology or whatever you talk about.

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.

I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.

Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population--and usually as homosexuals.

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!

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.