Toggle navigation
Home
Topics
Authors
Professions
Picture Quotes
Users
Join Us Now!
Login
Billie Jean King Quotes
I wanted to use sports for social change.
~ Billie Jean King
Change
Social
Social Change
Sports
Use
Wanted
design
copy
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
~ Billie Jean King
Also
Always
Team
Teams
Tennis
Tournaments
Well
World
design
copy
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.
~ Billie Jean King
First
First Law
Get
King
Law
Much
Never
Recognition
Tell
Then
Too
Too Much
Want
Will
You
design
copy
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
~ Billie Jean King
design
copy
I would love to be a player today. I had the right personality for it.
~ Billie Jean King
Had
Love
Personality
Player
Right
Today
Would
design
copy
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
~ Billie Jean King
Partner
Private
Respect
Wants
You
Your
design
copy
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
design
copy
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.
~ Billie Jean King
Area
Business
Cents
Dollar
Finance
Getting
Got
Now
Women
design
copy
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
Accept
Acceptable
Active
Athletes
Females
Girl
Had
Make
Much
Okay
People
Seventies
Sports
Them
Those
Times
Were
Women
design
copy
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
Any
Assumed
Female
Hard
How
Leader
Man
Matter
One-Dimensional
Side
Soft
Tough
Very
While
design
copy
It's fun to meet people from throughout the world who you don't have to explain yourself to.
~ Billie Jean King
Explain
Fun
Meet
People
Throughout
Who
World
You
Yourself
design
copy
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
~ Billie Jean King
Celebrate
Celebrating
Differences
First
Important
Just
Need
Our
Really
Start
Then
design
copy
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
~ Billie Jean King
Bad
Between
Everything
Five
Good
Haul
Long
Long Haul
Now
Through
Us
Very
Years
design
copy
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
~ Billie Jean King
Because
Crazy
Drives
Gone
Her
Open
Out
People
Rather
She
Want
Who
design
copy
Men 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 King
Better
Home
Huge
Least
Lot
Men
Ratings
Sponsorship
States
Still
Survive
Tennis
Than
Turnover
United
United States
Women
design
copy
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
~ Billie Jean King
design
copy
No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
~ Billie Jean King
Changes
No-One
Obsessed
Who
World
design
copy
Sports are a microcosm of society.
~ Billie Jean King
Microcosm
Society
Sports
design
copy
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
About
Character
Feels
Know
Life
Like
Play
Rules
Sports
Teaches
Win
You
design
copy
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
~ Billie Jean King
Action
Atmosphere
Combination
Perfect
Place
Taking
Tennis
Total
Tranquillity
Violent
design
copy
«first
‹previous
1
2
3
next›
last»
Total Records :
51
Quote Maker
×
download
High Quality
BG
Logo
Watermark
W BG
×
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Please use a modern browser as Chrome. The browser you are using doesn't have this feature.
Related Books
Author Profile
Votes :
Rating :
AuthorName
Billie Jean King
Profession
Athlete
BirthDate
22 November, 1943
Country
United States
View Profile
Share to your friends..
Related Author
Aaron Judge
Aaron Peirsol
Aaron Rodgers
Abby Wambach
Adam Rippon
Adrian Peterson
Aimee Mullins
AJ Lee
Al Kaline
Al Leiter
Al Oerter
Al Spalding
Al Unser
Alan Kulwicki
Alana Blanchard
Alex Honnold
Alex Karras
Alex Lowe
Alex Morgan
Alex Rodriguez
view more
Share quotes with
Quote Fellas
Join Quote Fellas
Like Us!!
Quote Fellas
Popular Topics
Attitude
Death
Inspirational
Life
Love
Motivational
Nature
Positive