Billie Jean King - Life Quotes

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I hate being called a homosexual because I don't feel that way. It really upsets me.... Being gay can happen in any walk of life, in any world. If you have one gay experience, does that mean you're gay? If you have one heterosexual experience, does that mean you're straight? Life doesn't work quite so cut and dried.

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I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral. It just seems like so much nonsense comparing me to Helen Wills Moody or Suzanne Lenglen or anybody else from some other time. One lesson you learn from sports is that life goes on without you.

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Strength, spirit and vitality — what the heck is life all about if you don't have those things to give you the energy to live it?

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I want people to be champions in life. Look, some people are very highly skilled in athletics, but that doesn't mean they are good people. I don't have interest in them. I'm 66; I don't have time for that.

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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.

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