Billie Jean King Quotes

In business, everything starts with integrity. Otherwise it falls apart, though it does take time to find out who has integrity.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

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

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

Some people do have softer boundaries.

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?

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.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure.

Create your legacy, and pass the baton.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

I try to perfect my strong points and make my weaknesses adequate.

Don't be afraid to hit the ball.

Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.

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

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

A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.

The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

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.

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

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

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.

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.