Billie Jean King Quotes

Bobby Riggs was one of my heroes. I admired him. That’s one of the reasons I beat him – because I respected him.

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.

When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, say they were in sports as a young woman.

I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.

What was the appearance of God the Father? Like that of a man…God has the likeness of fingers and hands and a face.

Show me any top entertainer or top business executive, and I’ll show you a guy who has mapped out his life from the very start.

Giving a 10-year mandatory minimum for a second offense fist fight is not going to reduce the chance that someone will be stabbed 16 times when you are not funding any of the programs that are desperately needed to actually reduce juvenile crime.

The old religions said that he was an atheist who did not believe in God. The new religion says that he is the atheist who does not believe in himself.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It’s dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

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