More From 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."
- "If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that."
- "There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim."
More In Sports
- "Golf is played by twenty million mature American men whose wives think they are out having fun."― Jim Bishop
- "I was lucky enough when it came to sports and work ethic to be taught some basics that continue to be important."― Joe Namath
- "The only way to prove that you’re a good sport is to lose."― Ernie Banks