If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.
BILLIE JEAN KINGIt’s very important to take tennis to the people. For young people, they get to see the best in the world.
More Billie Jean King Quotes
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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.
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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.
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Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
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As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
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Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
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Trust and respect is something you earn, not something that is given.
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When I’m performing at my absolute best, I think that some of the euphoria I feel must be transmitted to the audience.
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If you have one gay experience, does that mean you’re gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you’re straight? Life doesn’t work quite so cut and dried.
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It’s your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down
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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.
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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.
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The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
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The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
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Champions keep playing until they get it right.
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Pressure is a privilege … it’s what you do with it that matters.
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