Billie Jean King quotes A professional tennis player winning the triple crown for singles, doubles, and mixed doubles in the US and Britain Born: 11/22/1943 Country: usa

• A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning. (Billie Jean King) [champion]
• Champions keep playing until they get it right. (Billie Jean King) [right]
• Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball. (Billie Jean King) [take/responsibility]
• A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time. (Billie Jean King)
• Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready. (Billie Jean King)
• At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important. (Billie Jean King)
• Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball. (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)
• Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody. (Billie Jean King)
• I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team. (Billie Jean King)
• I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport. (Billie Jean King)
• I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself. (Billie Jean King)
• I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it. (Billie Jean King)
• I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life. (Billie Jean King)
• I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks. (Billie Jean King)
• I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me. (Billie Jean King)
• 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)
• I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms. (Billie Jean King)
• I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion. (Billie Jean King)
• 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. (Billie Jean King)
• I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour. (Billie Jean King)
• I wanted to use sports for social change. (Billie Jean King)
• I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well. (Billie Jean King)
• 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. (Billie Jean King)
• I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time. (Billie Jean King)
• I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it. (Billie Jean King)
• If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that. (Billie Jean King)
• In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it. (Billie Jean King)
• 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. (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)
• 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. (Billie Jean King)

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