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Billie Jean King Quotes
«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.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
acceptable, be active, females, scarier, seventies, sports
«It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're 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.»
«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.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
photo, skirt, skirted, sport, tennis, The photo
«The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality to attain that position, and that is something of a driving, perfectionist attitude, so that once you do achieve number one, you don't relax and enjoy»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| About:
Perfection,
Trouble
| Keywords:
mentality, number one, perfectionist, perfectionists, relax
«I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
cared, cementing, cements, comparing, ephemeral, Helen, Helen Wills, Helen Wills Moody, like so, Moody, some other, sports, that much, transitory, wills
«Ladies, here's a hint; if you're playing against a friend who has big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot for the well-endowed.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
| Keywords:
Against A, backhand, big shot, boob, boobs, endowed, hint, hints, lady friend, net, The Net, volley, volleys, well endowed
«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.»
«Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
«I . . . like being successful. I somehow always knew that I would succeed. I had a great sense of destiny from the time I was very young.»
Author: Billie Jean King
(Tennis Player)
«In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two. . . . That's why my place in the all-time rankings means so very little to me, because I know I won't be anybody's number one, and it's that same old thing: if you're not number one, then what does it really matter?»