Billie Jean King Quotes About Sports

Quotes about: Sports

• Champions keep playing until they get it right.

  Billie Jean King

  Inspirational, Sports, Running

  Twitter post from Jan 26, 2015

• 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

  Success, Sports, Character

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 02, 2010

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

  Billie Jean King

  Motivational, Success, Sports

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 14, 2010

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Perfect, Tennis

  "The Mammoth Book of Comic Quotes" by Geoff Tibballs, (p. 593), 2004.

• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Athlete

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

• 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

  Sports, Years, Tennis

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 07, 2010

• I wanted to use sports for social change.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Use, Social

• 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

  Leadership, Sports, Dedication

• Sports are a microcosm of society.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Microcosm

  "The First Of Billie Jean King's 50 Wimbledons". Interview With Susan Stamberg, www.npr.org. June 26, 2011.

• 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

  Sports, Learning, Winning

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 08, 2010

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, People, Risk

• It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Dream

• 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

  Sports, Men, Judging

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 01, 2010

• Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

  Billie Jean King

  Success, Sports, Perseverance

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 23, 2010

• 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.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Running, Strong

  TMF Interview, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Strong, Perfect

• I have a lot to say, and if I'm not No. 1, I can't say it.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Ifs, I Can

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from Jun 02, 2010

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Thinking, Way

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Player, Personality

  "Fool.com: TMF Interview: Billie Jean King [Special]". "The Motley Fool" David Gardner, Tom Gardner, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.

• 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

  Sports, Kings, Law

  FaceBook post by Billie Jean King from May 03, 2010

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Years, Long

• 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.

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Boys, Opportunity

  "Fool.com: TMF Interview: Billie Jean King [Special]". "The Motley Fool" David Gardner, Tom Gardner, www.fool.com. July 3, 2002.

• 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!

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Athlete, Men

  Billie Jean King, Frank Deford (1982). “Billie Jean”, Viking Pr

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

  Billie Jean King

  Sports, Men, Attention

• 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

  Sports, Husband, Father

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