Billie Jean King
  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.