Quotes by Billie Jean King

Billie Jean King

American tennis player

Lived from: 1943 -

Category: Athletes

Born: 22 november 1943

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  • Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
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  • Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
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  • Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
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  • 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.
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  • Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
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  • That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
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  • The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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.
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  • 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 you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
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  • 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.
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  • 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!
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  • Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
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  • Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
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  • 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.
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