Quotes from Billie Jean King
Don't go into debt and don't spend a lot. It's not how much money you make, it's how much you spend.
- Billie Jean King
You've got to win in sports - that's talent - but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody how you did win, and how often. That comes with experience.
- Billie Jean King
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
My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.
- Billie Jean King
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
- Billie Jean King
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.
- Billie Jean King
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
- Billie Jean King
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.
- Billie Jean King
The most important words that have helped me in life, when things have gone right or when things have gone wrong are 'accept responsibility.'
- Billie Jean King
Our love one's are never gone, they have just popped into another room.
- Billie Jean King
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.
- Billie Jean King
Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.
- Billie Jean King