#us

I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#coaching #grass-roots #i #i love #love

I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#come #hope #i #i think #impossible

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

— Billie Jean King

#any #i #sexuality #talked #tennis

I would just never out anybody. I think everyone has to find it in their own way and their own time. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#everyone #find #i #i think #just

It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#celebrating #differences #first #important #just

Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#between #everything #five #good #haul

Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#crazy #drives #gone #her #martina

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

When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last! ↗

— Billie Jean King

#athletes #dates #easily #getting #just