162 Quotes by Billie Jean King

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.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

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.

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.

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.

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.