Top 51 Quotes by 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.

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.

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.

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

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.

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!

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.

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

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

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