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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.
— Billie Jean King
Tags: past, sports, me, life

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Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.
— Billie Jean King
Tags: perfect, place, action, sports
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
— Billie Jean King
Tags: well, team, always, world
Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
— Billie Jean King
Tags: ready, tell, will, you
I always wanted to help make tennis a team sport.
— Billie Jean King
Tags: make, help, team, always
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
Tags: woman, business, sports, women
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