Billie Jean King Quotes

I get paid to play football and show everything I've got.

I have spoken with many former athletes, and they tell me the best time they had was in sports. I listen to them and use their experience in my career.

I was a sports nut. I stayed after school probably three hours every day - from fall, to winter, to spring. I went from football to basketball to track, and it started all over again. I loved all of it. I just loved being an athlete and all that it entailed. It really accounts for who I am today and even how I think today.

I hit a ball for a living, but I have that passion to keep learning.

Never played football, but I'm an athlete. I'm a competitor.

I went on and was still able to play some good hockey.

I don't know whether it's the athlete in me or the passion I have for the game: I always think that I can step back on the field and play.

I have fun playing tennis and I understand that the good things from tennis go hand in hand with attention. But it's not important to me.

I want to play as long as possible at the highest level.

Football is very hard, and people see only the nice part of the job.

I don't know if I'm ever going to quit playing football. I'm just kidding.

I am a professional footballer and as long as I'm able to make a contribution, I'll be doing all I can to stay at the top.

When I was playing I never wished I was doing anything else. I think being a professional athlete is the finest thing a man can do.

Base Ball, to be played thoroughly, requires the possession of muscular strength, great agility, quickness of eye, readiness of hand, and many other faculties of mind and body that mark the man of nerve.

Is my ability what it was at, say, 25 or 30 years old? Probably not, but I like to compete. I like to go out and play the game hard.

Sports is my passion.

They see themselves as athletes and only athletes.

I'd say the most memorable thing for me was my dedication and motivation in how I got so involved in boxing.

I'm a runner from sports. I've been a runner, but I wasn't a cross-country runner or anything like that. I played a lot of soccer growing up.

Athletics is in my blood.

In football, I need full concentration even though I really enjoy it.

But I like to think an athlete is an athlete.

When you are a professional sportsman all the guys are great competitors in the top 50.

I've been a professional rugby player all my life; I don't really know anything different.

I have great admiration for athletes. They are just like actors in a lot of ways. They have tremendous pressures and conflicts. They have to compete, and they can't stay home just because they have a head cold.