Billie Jean King Quotes

I know I did not play an 11-a-side match until I was 12; even beyond that, we tended to play smaller-sized matches on smaller pitches.

I am not really much interested in talking to adults, although I suppose practically every mother in the kingdom knows my name and my books. It's their children I love.

When I was growing up, there weren't any Little Leagues in the city. Parents worked all the time. They didn't have time to take their kids out to play baseball and football.

Dad played with me a great deal, as dads should do, and our chief sport was baseball. He bought me a hardball when I was three years old, and he used to sit in a rocker on the front porch while I sat on the grass in the yard, and we'd play catch by the hour.

As a youngster, I played in Little League, Pony League, and all sorts of amateur baseball programs growing up.

Baseball was made for kids, and grown-ups only screw it up.

I played tennis and softball, and we had horses, growing up.

Sitting with a bunch of adults and arguing about what's going to be most effective for kids is just sort of self-defeating.

I didn't watch cartoons, I was too busy playing football.

I also developed an interest in sports, and played in informal games at a nearby school yard where the neighborhood children met to play touch football, baseball, basketball and occasionally, ice hockey.

You know, when I was a young boy I used to play baseball in my back yard or in the street with my brothers or the neighborhood kids. We used broken bats and plastic golf balls and played for hours and hours.

I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

Basketball would have been the natural sport to play, but it's a little too aggressive for me, so instead I dabbled in volleyball and some good old-fashioned Roller Derby.

Children spend the greater part of their time outside the school. Here they come under the influence of the street and frequently of hostile hooligan elements. Questions concerning the organization of the children's out-of-school hours, the Young Pioneer movement, the provision of libraries and workshops and social work for the children, are of tremendous importance

For many children, the sport they do is because that is the one that was most available to them.

Football was really my least favorite sport and the last sport that I ended up picking up as a kid. My dad started me off with baseball, which most kids did at that time. I really enjoyed basketball. That was my favorite sport.

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

The general public don't like boxers. They prefer tennis players.

I like watching tennis and basketball, but it's not every day you can watch it on TV. I don't play them, though.

I started off playing sports when I was five years old. I played three or four sports all throughout the year.

When I was 6 years old, I played on a coed indoor team. We were called the Cosmos. And then, after that, when I was 7, I played on an all-girls club team.

There is a real danger that kids won't engage with cricket when there are so many other opportunities to use their time in other sports, not to mention video-gaming, and generally long-form cricket doesn't turn them on.

Young kids do not see tennis as a 'fun' sport.

I started playing ball when I was 4 years old.

I often speak about tennis being one of the most important sports when I was growing up, for my hand-eye coordination and quick feet.