“People say, “Do you know how much a million dollars is?” I don’t have a clue. How many Big Macs will it buy me?”
Billie Jean King
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“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
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“I’ve never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.”
Billie Jean King
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“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.”
Billie Jean King
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“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.”
Billie Jean King
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“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.”
Billie Jean King
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“I wanted to use sports for social change.”
Billie Jean King
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“Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.”
Billie Jean King
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“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
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“Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.”
Billie Jean King
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“Sports are a microcosm of society.”
Billie Jean King
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“Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don’t be afraid to hit the ball.”
Billie Jean King
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“Champions keep playing until they get it right.”
Billie Jean King
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“A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.”
Billie Jean King
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