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A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.

Billie Jean King

I would have them do their skill drills as a team and their fun drills together as a team, then they have to have a match at the end of every week. They can’t just have what they call a lesson today every week.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Drills Match Skill The Lesson Week
I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don’t think about coming out. Unless you’re number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Numbers Player Thinking Younger
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Experience Heterosexual Mean Quite
It’s really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you’re still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you’re a superhuman hero that everyone dreams of being. No wonder we have such a hard time understanding who we are.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Athletes Dreams Sports Success
I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
BILLIE JEAN KING

After Firsts Lessons Life
We have, or have had women presidents or prime ministers in Liberia, Chile, Germany, Great Britain…and yet the US of A still hasn’t had a women president. It’s just beyond my thinking. Look at Congress.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Country President Thinking
When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they will come and they have.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Doors People Race
A girl didn’t get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Fall Girl Scholarship Sports
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Entrepreneur People Risk Sports
I think one of the concerns, anytime you’re in the human business, like sports, it’s a very high – risk endeavor.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Player Sports Thinking
When I was outed, it was like, That’s done.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Done Like Outed
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

Kings Law Recognition Sports
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.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Since Sports Tennis Years
Champions adjust and pressure is a privilege.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Champion Pressure Privilege
As far as U.S. tennis, we need new stars coming up in the pipeline, but I don’t know if we have it.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Games Needs Pipeline Stars Tennis
I think if you’re put on a team as a child, like you are in soccer and other sports, I think the children are going to stay in the sport and have more fun if they’re on a team. They want to play with their friends and have fun.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Child Children More Soccer Sports

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