For me, losing a tennis match isn't failure, it's research.

- Billie Jean King

When you oppress people either by gender, by race, by sexual orientation, when you do that and the doors become ajar, they will fly open and they wil…

- Billie Jean King

I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.

- Billie Jean King

Don't let anyone define you. You define yourself.

- Billie Jean King

Champions keep playing until they get it right.

- Billie Jean King

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 …

- Billie Jean King

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.

- Billie Jean King

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about lif…

- Billie Jean King

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

- Billie Jean King