Billie Jean King Quotes

Sports teaches you character, it teaches you to play by the rules, it teaches you to know what it feels like to win and lose-it teaches you about life.

Billie Jean King

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: athlete
  • Nationality: american
  • Birth: November 22, 1943

Topics

LifeCharacterSportsWinYouRules

In Hamburg, there are three major orchestras, an opera house, and one of the great concert-hall acoustics in Europe at the Laeiszhalle, in a town a fifth the size of London. And that's not unusual. In Germany, there are dozens of towns with two or three orchestras. The connection with music goes very, very deep.

Jeffrey Tate

MusicGreatDeepConnectionHouse

This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.

John Doolittle

WomenDayMenWarBraveFighting

By default, most of us have taken the dare to simply survive. Exist. Get through. For the most part, we live numb to life - we've grown weary and apathetic and jaded... and wounded.

Ann Voskamp

LifeLiveSurviveDareThroughNumb

I can't stand most things that I see.

Meryl Streep

StandSeeI SeeThingsMost

I've always written - about music, art, things going on around the world. The danger is that it becomes too personal. I don't think people want it at that level of intimacy.

Stephen Hough

MusicArtPeopleWorldThinkWant

People think that I'm conceited, and I'm not a nice person.

Slick Rick

PeopleThinkPersonNiceNice Person

Too many in Washington display a ruling class mentality, and congressional term limits would go a long way towards restoring the citizen-legislator ethos of the Founding Fathers.

Ron DeSantis

LimitsLongGoWashingtonClassWay

I think there's always been progressive R&B music.

Miguel

MusicThinkAlwaysProgressiveBeen

Man will never understand woman and vice versa. We are oil and water. An equal level can never be maintained, as one will always excel where the other doesn't, and that breeds resentment.

Dionne Warwick

WaterWomanManUnderstandNever

If I got paid, it was no more than five dollars a column, and I still think I was overpaid.

Dick Schaap

ThinkMoreGotPaidFiveStill

You start acting just as soon as you walk into the door of that casting office. You can't just be yourself because they don't want to hire you.

Clifton Collins, Jr.

WalkYourselfDoorBe YourselfStart

I will allow myself to sleep in until 9 A.M. on the weekends.

Phoebe Robinson

MyselfSleepWillWeekendsAllow

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