Sports are a microcosm of society. It just shows how much more competition there is in the world.
Billie Jean KingMen can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
Billie Jean KingI 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 KingWhen 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.
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