Top 51 Quotes by 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.

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.

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

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.

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

Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.

Sports are a microcosm of society.

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

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.