Billie Jean King Tennis Quotations

Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.

There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this, and because I thought golf would be too slow for me, and I was too scared to swim.

I used to be told if I talked about my sexuality in any way that we wouldn't have a tennis tour.

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.

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.

I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.

I like putting money back into what made my life, and tennis has been great to me.

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

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

Tennis is a game of angles. You never have time to figure the angles. It's practiced. It's so practiced that it becomes an instinct. You just know where to put the ball. You just feel it. It has been computed into your brain so many times ­ it is there.

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

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 for the well-endowed.

I always listen, I ask children, I even ask adults in tennis, "What are your children playing?" And most of the time it's not tennis. It's pathetic.