Top 51 Quotes by Billie Jean King

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

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.

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.

That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.

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 like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

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

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.

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.