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

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

- 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

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 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

I like to see what future generations are thinking about.

- Billie Jean King