#ports

I don't think the intelligence reports are all that hot. Some days I get more out of the New York Times. ↗

— John F. Kennedy

#get #hot #i #intelligence #more

The American people are sheep. They're comfortable, rich, working. It's like the Romans, they're happy with bread and their spectator sports. The Super Bowl means more to them than any right. ↗

— Jack Kevorkian

#american people #any #bowl #bread #comfortable

One individual doesn't really accept the pro-life position of the party, and the other... says he supports it and takes a position that is logically inconsistent. ↗

— Alan Keyes

#inconsistent #individual #logically #other #party

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

— Billie Jean King

#action #atmosphere #combination #perfect #place

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 life. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#character #feels #know #life #like

Sports are a microcosm of society. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#microcosm #society

Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States started in 1972, with the passage of Title 9 for girls to finally get athletic scholarships. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

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 were much scarier times for females in sports. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#golf #got #i #into #league

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fortune #say #sports #successful #surveys