Billie Jean King Quotations | Page 2

My whole life has been about equal rights and opportunities. For me it really goes back to the health of mind, body and soul.

Natural talent only determines the limits of your athletic potential. It's dedication and a willingness to discipline your life that makes you great.

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

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

Reputation is what others think about you. What's far more important is character, because that is what you think about yourself.

You have got to want to be the best before you can even begin to reach for that goal, and you have got to be prepared to sacrifice a lot to get there.

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.

Pressure is a privilege - it only comes to those who earn it.

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 will come and they have.