The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing..

Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever..

I think one of the concerns, anytime you're in the human business, like sports, it's a very high - risk endeavor. You do have to get players every ye….

I got to see the best players in the world every year the week after the U.S. Nationals, which is now known as the US Open, in Los Angeles. That made….

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 go….

Ladies, here's a hint. If you're up against a girl with big boobs, bring her to the net and make her hit backhand volleys. That's the hardest shot fo….

Winning comes down to who can execute under pressure..

A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time..

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..

Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball..

Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebod….

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

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..

Ask Nureyev to stop dancing, ask Sinatra to stop singing, then you can ask me to stop playing..

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 ….

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 w….

I wanted to use sports for social change..

It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're still a child, still playing a game. But on the other hand, you're a superhum….

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

I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well..

Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that comes to me, I have to make a decision. I have to ac….