Billie Jean King Quotes

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

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

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• 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.

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

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

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• I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

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• I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.

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• It’s fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don’t have to explain yourself to.

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• It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side… and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.

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• It’s just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let’s start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.

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• 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.

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• In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

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

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• 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.

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• No one changes the world who isn’t obsessed.

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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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Billie Jean King (53)

Birth:	22nd November, 1943
Nationality:	American
Profession:	Tennis Player

About

Billie Jean King is an American former World No. 1 professional tennis player. King won 39 Grand Slam titles, including 12 singles, 16 women's doubles, and 11 mixed doubles titles. King won the singles title at the inaugural WTA Tour Championships. King often represented the United States in the Federation Cup and the Wightman Cup. She was a member of the victorious United States team in seven Federation Cups and nine Wightman Cups. For three years, King was the United States' captain in the Federation Cup.

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