black
grey
blue
red
brown
white

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Billie Jean King

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we’ve really and truly arrived. Parity at last!
BILLIE JEAN KING

Athlete Men Point Reach Sports Time
Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Dedication Leadership Sports
Hope it works out really well, and you hope that builds a stronger connection over time. You can’t be friends with everybody.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Build Connection Hope Over Stronger Time World
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
The main thing is not a matter of wanting to win; the main thing is being scared to lose.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Failure Matter Winning
Winning is very tangible, it’s very exciting, it’s very pleasing, but it’s momentary. If you can do things that last, that each generation can build upon, then that’s when you’re cooking.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Cooking Generation Winning
Each point I play is in the now moment. The last point means nothing, the next point means nothing.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Focus Mean Play
Any therapist will tell you that when you’re ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren’t ready.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Mean Ready Therapists
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

Learning Sports Talent Winning
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

Father Husband Sports
Women’s sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women’s sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Girl Infancy Sports
At 62 you want to keep moving; that’s important.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Important Moving Sports
Marriage isn’t a 50-50 proposition very often. It’s more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Marriage Moments Next
I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Anybody Everyone Sports Thinking Way
I always think it’s best to pretend you’re in a tenuous position. Just as a player, you always want to stay in the now and work hard but also have goals for the future.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Hard Player Thinking Work
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
BILLIE JEAN KING

Motivational Sports Success

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.

Related Topics

Popular Authors

More Billie Jean King Quotes