Billie Jean King Sports Famous Quotes & Sayings
21 Billie Jean King Sports Famous Sayings, Quotes and Quotation.
The Women's Sports Foundation holds a unique position in developing opportunities for girls and women of all abilities to be active whether recreationally or competitively, and I'm excited to help lead the organization to impact even more lives. It is an honor to continue to build the legacy created by Billie Jean King and all of our leaders.— Angela Ruggiero
Will I have to explain to my daughter that her brother is gonna make more money doing the exact same job because he's a man? If they both played sports since they were three years old, they both worked just as hard, but because he's a boy, they're gonna give him more money? Like, how am I gonna explain that to her? In tennis we've had great pioneers that paved the way - including Venus [Williams], who fought so hard for Wimbledon to pay women the same prize money they pay men, and Billie Jean King, who is one of the main reasons Title IX exists.— Serena Williams
Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.— Billie Jean King
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.— Billie Jean King
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.— Billie Jean King
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
I wanted to use sports for social change.— Billie Jean King
I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.— Billie Jean King
Sports are a microcosm of society.— Billie Jean King
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.— Billie Jean King
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.— Billie Jean King
I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.— Billie Jean King
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.— Billie Jean King
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.— Billie Jean King
Female athletes are stereotyped by the general population— Billie Jean King
and usually as homosexuals.
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.— Billie Jean King
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.— Billie Jean King
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.— Billie Jean King
Champions keep playing until they get it right.— Billie Jean King
I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.— Billie Jean King
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.— Billie Jean King
