Quotes from Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing untill they get it right.

Love, light & blessings be On this day I wish to say 'Health & Happiness to come your way' Happy Birthday

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.

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.

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.

Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball.

Marriage isn't a 50-50 proposition very often. It's more like 100-0 one moment and 0-100 the next.

At 62 you want to keep moving; that's important.

I have often been asked whether I am a women or an athlete. The question is absurd. Men are not asked that. I am an athlete. I am a women.

Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.

Pressure is a privilege ... it's what you do with it that matters.

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.

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.

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.

I wanted to use sports for social change.

They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.

Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.

In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.

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.

It's important to try to get people to think about women's wellness.

I always liked co-ed events best so we have two men and two women on each team.

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!

No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.

It's your birthday today, so what would you say, if we turned that frown upside down