Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it fe...
BILLIE JEAN KING Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
BILLIE JEAN KING Champions keep playing until they get it right.
BILLIE JEAN KING A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.
BILLIE JEAN KING Be bold. If you are going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball.
BILLIE JEAN KING Champions take responsibility. When the ball is coming over the net, you can be sure I want the ball...
BILLIE JEAN KING I think self-awareness is probably the most important thing towards being a champion.
BILLIE JEAN KING It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a ga...
BILLIE JEAN KING Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not wa...
BILLIE JEAN KING I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.
BILLIE JEAN KING Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
BILLIE JEAN KING I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to thin...
BILLIE JEAN KING In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of...
BILLIE JEAN KING When they take surveys of women in business, of the Fortune 500, the successful women, 80% of them, ...
BILLIE JEAN KING I wanted to use sports for social change.
BILLIE JEAN KING Sports are a microcosm of society.
BILLIE JEAN KING In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We h...
BILLIE JEAN KING I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming ...
BILLIE JEAN KING They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your cultur...
BILLIE JEAN KING A girl didn't get an athletic scholarship until the fall of 1972 for the very first time.
BILLIE JEAN KING No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
BILLIE JEAN KING Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
BILLIE JEAN KING Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn'...
BILLIE JEAN KING It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating...
BILLIE JEAN KING The main thing is to care. Care very hard, even if it is only a game you are playing.
BILLIE JEAN KING 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 Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillit...
BILLIE JEAN KING Women's sports is still in its infancy. The beginning of women's sports in the United States...
BILLIE JEAN KING It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a ...
BILLIE JEAN KING Be bold. If you're going to make an error, make a doozy, and don't be afraid to hit the ball...
BILLIE JEAN KING No matter how tough, no matter what kind of outside pressure, no matter how many bad breaks along th...
BILLIE JEAN KING I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then whe...
BILLIE JEAN KING I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the spo...
BILLIE JEAN KING In the complete overall history of tennis, I figure I'll be worth a sentence or two. . . . That's wh...
BILLIE JEAN KING There is no life for girls in team sports past Little League. I got into tennis when I realized this...
BILLIE JEAN KING Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'...
BILLIE JEAN KING Gene bet on Bobby, but I've forgiven him since.
BILLIE JEAN KING Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it ...
BILLIE JEAN KING No one changes the world who isn't obsessed.
BILLIE JEAN KING I thought it would set us back 50 years if I didn't win that match. It would ruin the women's tour a...
BILLIE JEAN KING Ladies, here's a hint; if you're playing against a friend who has big boobs, bring her to the net an...
BILLIE JEAN KING The home of the U.S. Open is the largest public tennis facility in the world and operates almost yea...
BILLIE JEAN KING It's just the right thing to do in the 21st century. The people in power can do whatever they want. ...
BILLIE JEAN KING I'm glad that Sheryl was able to make this decision on her own terms and for her own reasons. I'm ha...
BILLIE JEAN KING An excellent place to play or watch tennis is right here at UNLV, located just off the Strip. When t...
BILLIE JEAN KING She wanted to be true to herself... and she had a lot of demons because of it. I think her sexuality...
BILLIE JEAN KING Gene would listen to everyone. He'd listen to the little guy who no one else listen to. He was inclu...
BILLIE JEAN KING I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it...
BILLIE JEAN KING I knew after my first lesson what I wanted to do with my life.
BILLIE JEAN KING I bet $100,'' he said.
BILLIE JEAN KING People come here because it's a 'happening,' even if they don't know anything about the game.
BILLIE JEAN KING Missouri is home to several of the finest public tennis facilities in the nation. This one, named fo...
BILLIE JEAN KING It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a ...
BILLIE JEAN KING The trouble with being number one in the world - in anything - is that it takes a certain mentality ...
BILLIE JEAN KING Winning is very tangible, it's very exciting, it's very pleasing, but it's momentary. If you can do ...
BILLIE JEAN KING I . . . like being successful. I somehow always knew that I would succeed. I had a great sense of de...
BILLIE JEAN KING It's really impossible for athletes to grow up. On the one hand, you're a child, still playing a gam...
BILLIE JEAN KING This is one time I had some leverage. It was kind of exhilarating and empowering.
BILLIE JEAN KING I call them the first generation of men of the women's movement. They have tears in their eyes, they...
BILLIE JEAN KING It was just a big deal to play there because the Astrodome was a big deal.
BILLIE JEAN KING This public facility has hosted several national tournaments, from juniors to professional-level eve...
BILLIE JEAN KING We have the great fortune of having the best two players in the world with Serena and Venus. As they...
BILLIE JEAN KING Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.
BILLIE JEAN KING The 14 hard courts at this public tennis center are a real gem in the Pacific Northwest. One of the ...
BILLIE JEAN KING A lot of sports, over the years, become a game. If you are into tennis, it becomes part of your life...
BILLIE JEAN KING For me personally it's important to see him really believing in himself and just playing so much bet...
BILLIE JEAN KING You've got to win in sports -- that's talent -- but you've also got to learn how to remind everybody...
BILLIE JEAN KING I've never cared that much for cementing my place in history. Sports is so transitory, so ephemeral....
BILLIE JEAN KING Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearin...
BILLIE JEAN KING Tennis taught me so many lessons in life. One of the things it taught me is that every ball that com...
BILLIE JEAN KING Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the w...
BILLIE JEAN KING The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many...
BILLIE JEAN KING Victory is fleeting. Losing is forever.
BILLY JEAN KING You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without a...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I don't think I missed a single picture Billie Dove ever made. I was crazy for her. I tried to d...
BILLIE HOLIDAY A woman past forty should make up her mind to be young; not her face.
BILLIE BURKE Age doesn't matter, unless you're cheese.
BILLIE BURKE Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese
BILLIE BURKE You can be up to your boobies in white satin, with gardenias in your hair and no sugar cane for mile...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I can't stand to sing the same song the same way two nights in succession, let alone two years or te...
BILLIE HOLIDAY In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinement outs...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY To survive there, you need the ambition of a Latin-American revolutionary, the ego of a grand opera ...
BILLIE BURKE My mom made me watch 'Star Wars' for the first time when I was about 7 years old. When I was...
BILLIE LOURD No two people on earth are alike, and it's got to be that way in music or it isn't music.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAY A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Age is something that doesn't matter, unless you are a cheese.
BILLIE BURKE Age is of no importance unless you are a cheese.
BILLIE BURKE I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
BILLIE HOLIDAY In the next few years I'd love to play a female version of Doctor Who. I know exactly how I woul...
BILLIE PIPER There's no damn business like show business - you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY The typical process for administering medications in a hospital provides great opportunity for misse...
BILLIE WALDO Hospitals can spend millions of dollars a year manually collecting quality data and then still be un...
BILLIE WALDO The labor required to collect, analyze and submit quality data is a significant challenge for hospit...
BILLIE WALDO What's important to note is that it is not enough just to get information into a clinical system. He...
BILLIE WALDO It allows them to see different competition and to see different competition. It allows them to see ...
BILLIE STUART We could use more volunteers.
BILLIE STUART Not just the bowlers come. But the parents and the brothers and sisters. The whole family comes and ...
BILLIE STUART This is huge. There's going to be a lot of energy. It's going to be fun.
BILLIE STUART You have the bowlers and their families coming from all over the state.
BILLIE STUART Rose has had adventures and she's a lot more confident as a companion. She's on a par with the Docto...
BILLIE PIPER You want it to happen, but at the same time you don't want it to happen. It's one of those weird thi...
BILLIE PIPER There are lots of places for Rose to go. I have had a ball. I might still be here in 40 years.
BILLIE PIPER Everyone had an amazing night. Thank you so much to all the generous people who were there raising s...
BILLIE PIPER the worst thing I have ever listened to.
BILLIE PIPER It may sound ridiculous being just 23 but I've a few good stories I'd like to share. I'm hoping the ...
BILLIE PIPER There's some great stuff on telly at the moment.
BILLIE PIPER I think I just had a message from my mum,
BILLIE PIPER At first, Rose isn't that keen on the idea - she wants the Doctor all to herself. But Mickey, this y...
BILLIE PIPER I'll do what I always do on transmission dates, which is go to the pub and get lashed.
BILLIE PIPER Love is like a faucet (it turns off and on).
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY [4. Dianne Reeves She supplies the lush jazz vocals in] Good Night, and Good Luck ... Billie & Me.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Dope never helped anybody sing better or play music better or do anything better. All dope can do fo...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and eating Chinese ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Blueprint of a Lady
BILLIE HOLIDAY Southern trees bear strange fruit,Blood on the leaves and blood at the root,Black bodies swinging in...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I never had a chance to play with dolls like other kids. I started working when I was six years old.
BILLIE HOLIDAY They can't move until we know they're safe. When the levees broke, it threw us a curve. They can't d...
BILLIE CATHEY They're calling it even worse than 9/11.
BILLIE CATHEY It can be done in two days. We'll match them up from there.
BILLIE CATHEY How would you feel if someone gave you a pair of blue jeans and your religious beliefs didn't allow ...
BILLIE CATHEY They don't do that. They're there to make sure you have food and water.
BILLIE CATHEY This is the largest single amount we have ever received.
BILLIE CATHEY This money will go a long way toward food, clothing and housing for people in need.
BILLIE CATHEY No woman has less temptation to seek matrimony from sordid motives of selfishness or convenience. Th...
BILLIE BURKE There is no reason why marriage should necessarily compel an actress to forego her career. An actres...
BILLIE BURKE I am constantly amazed when I talk to young people to learn how much they know about sex and how lit...
BILLIE BURKE This is an era of woman's work in many spheres of activity -- of independent thought and individual ...
BILLIE BURKE And so I began to do my silly women. These characters, these bird-witted ladies whom I have characte...
BILLIE BURKE I think when an actress marries she should leave the stage. She cannot be happy if she is married an...
BILLIE BURKE Hello Montreal! 'Fuck You' would be a good sign at your highways!
BILLIE ARMSTRONG No one's really happy anyway, it's not human.
BILLIE ARMSTRONG We're here to share music and good times with our fans,
BILLIE ARMSTRONG Punk is not just the sound, the music. Punk is a life-style. There are a lot of bands around who cla...
BILLIE ARMSTRONG It's about a kid that is trying to find his beliefs and his ethics, coming from a broken home, being...
BILLIE ARMSTRONG A guy walks up to me and asks 'What's Punk?'. So I kick over a garbage can and say 'That's punk!'. S...
BILLIE ARMSTRONG I'm a crazy son of a bitch. Do you think I have time to care about what all the other ass holes care...
BILLIE ARMSTRONG I'm still wearing the pants I had in the eleventh grade.
BILLIE ARMSTRONG I didn't graduate from any of them (Colleges) and look at me now mom!
BILLIE ARMSTRONG I write everything on a xylophone!
BILLIE ARMSTRONG If I'm going to sing like someone else, then I don't need to sing at all.
BILLIE HOLIDAY I'm always making a comeback but nobody ever tells me where I've been.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Love is like a faucet, it turns off and on.
BILLIE HOLIDAY They think they can make fuel from horse manure - now, I don't know if your car will be able to ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY It's just horrendous. I'm a kid person and I just couldn't imagine someone hurting a defenseless chi...
BILLIE BROWN There are lots of great movies coming out of the U.S. but it's not something I've ever reall...
BILLIE PIPER Everyones got to be different. You can't copy anybody and end up with anything. If you copy, it mean...
BILLIE HOLIDAY An actress who has the gift of swaying the emotions of an audience, of compelling tribute of tears, ...
BILLIE BURKE Weight doesn't matter as long as you're happy with yourself.
BILLIE PIPER All dope can do for you is kill you . . . the long hard way. And it can kill the people you love rig...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you think dope is for kicks and for thrills, you're out of your mind. There are more kicks to be ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY They think they can make fuel from horse manure - Now, I don't know if your car will be able to get ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I hate straight singing. I have to change a tune to my own way of doing it. That's all I know.
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Mom and Pop were just a couple of kids when they got married. He was eighteen, she was sixteen and I...
BILLIE HOLIDAY You've got to have something to eat and a little love in your life before you can hold still for any...
BILLIE HOLIDAY She raised me to not think of men and women as different. She raised me without gender. It's kin...
BILLIE LOURD Career Ed Expo gives career and tech education students a chance to show off what they know and can ...
BILLIE VAULTONBURG We invite you to help career and technical education students and their teachers celebrate Career an...
BILLIE VAULTONBURG Outstanding career technical students from each school will be recognized.
BILLIE VAULTONBURG Now residents are coming forward and saying this is my home. We will not allow you to take this over...
BILLIE SPICUZZA One strike is a means of providing as safe a housing as we can for those people who are not going to...
BILLIE SPICUZZA It's a plan that allows us to take one-strike action. We don't have to wait for it to happen repeate...
BILLIE SPICUZZA There's no formula. It just happens or it doesn't. And, fortunately enough for us, it happened.
BILLIE PIPER Even if you just help one person, you've helped the whole community. It's just like a ripple in a po...
BILLIE JOHNSON I don't want you to guess. I want you to recognize it.
BILLIE JOHNSON I wish these candidates would come down to our office and sit down with us.
BILLIE JOHNSON I heard the words 'Salt Rock' and realized those people were from here. To think that the people inv...
BILLIE BROWN I never hurt nobody but myself and that's nobody's business but my own.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Somebody once said we never know what is enough until we know what's more than enough.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Sometimes it's worse to win a fight than to lose.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Money, you have lots of friendshanging round the door.When it's goneand the spending endsThey don't ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby
BILLIE HOLIDAY Terror runs for king I said. It is better to explore within. We were apes before we spoke of sin. Th...
BILLIE HOLIDAY If you copy, it means you're working without any real feeling. No two people on earth are alike, and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY One day a whole damn song fell into place in my head.
BILLIE HOLIDAY If I don't have friends, then I ain't got nothing.
BILLIE HOLIDAY People don't understand the kind of fight it takes to record what you want to record the way you wan...
BILLIE HOLIDAY There's no damn business like show business -- you have to smile to keep from throwing up.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Mama may have, papa may have,But God bless the child that's got his own!
BILLIE HOLIDAY Singing songs like 'The Man I Love' or 'Porgy' is no more work than sitting down and...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I'm happy in the UK. I absolutely love it and I've finally got a great group of friends. I&#...
BILLIE PIPER I'm a bit of a recluse, very fond of my own company.
BILLIE WHITELAW In this country, don't forget, a habit is no damn private hell. There's no solitary confinem...
BILLIE HOLIDAY Don't threaten me with love, baby. Let's just go walking in the rain.
BILLIE HOLIDAY Age is of no importance unless you’re a cheese.
BILLIE BURKE I am not a big horror freak. I'm a bit of a scaredy-cat in general. I can't handle scary mov...
BILLIE LOURD You can't copy anybody and end with anything. If you copy, it means you're working without any real ...
BILLIE HOLIDAY You can be up to your boobies in
white satin, with gardenias in your hair
and no sugar c...
BILLIE HOLIDAY I said to my agent, 'I want short, sharp, well-paid jobs because I haven't got time for anyt...
BILLIE WHITELAW I've never been a career builder. I didn't go to drama school and hardly went to any school ...
BILLIE WHITELAW I very often wake up at two in the morning with my stomach going over. Sometimes it's difficult ...
BILLIE WHITELAW Death's not one of those things that frighten the life out of me. Getting up on stage with the c...
BILLIE WHITELAW I do talk a lot - far more than my husband - but I'm not good at talking to a lot of people. I e...
BILLIE WHITELAW When you get real stage fright, it comes like a sledgehammer out of the blue in the middle of someth...
BILLIE WHITELAW Amadu is all about the family. I've never known love like that before, and it made me think, ...
BILLIE PIPER A musical film is my idea of heaven. You can pre-record, you don't have to sing live. Singing li...
BILLIE PIPER I would really love to do a musical, I don't know in what capacity but something funny.
BILLIE PIPER