Billie Jean King Quotes

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down

Being Number One isn't everything to me, but for those few hours on the court it's way ahead of whatever's in second place.

In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made a huge difference in my life.

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.

As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don't know if we have it.

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

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.

Every generation I think gets better usually [in tennis].

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

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

When people tell you not to believe in your dreams, and they say “Why?”, say “Why not?