In the seventies we had to make it acceptable for people to accept girls and women as athletes. We had to make it okay for them to be active. Those were much scarier times for females in sports.Collection: Women
Sports are a microcosm of society.Collection: Society
When we reach the point where the women athletes are getting their pick of dates just as easily as the men athletes, then we've really and truly arrived. Parity at last!Collection: Equality
Women get the attention when we get into the men's arena, and that's sad.Collection: Sad
If your partner wants to be private, you have to respect that.Collection: Respect
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.Collection: Sports
Champions keep playing until they get it right.Collection: Sports
I wanted to use sports for social change.Collection: Sports
A champion is afraid of losing. Everyone else is afraid of winning.Collection: Success
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.Collection: Life
I think it's impossible to judge whether another person should come out. You just hope they will on their own time and their own terms.Collection: Hope
I like entrepreneurial people; I like people who take risks.Collection: Chance
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.Collection: Sports
Ever since that day when I was 11 years old, and I wasn't allowed in a photo because I wasn't wearing a tennis skirt, I knew that I wanted to change the sport.Collection: Change
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.Collection: Sports
In 1973, women got 59 cents on the dollar; now we are getting 74 cents on the dollar. In the area of finance and business, we are at 68 cents on the dollar.Collection: Finance
Tennis is a perfect combination of violent action taking place in an atmosphere of total tranquillity.Collection: Sports
It's just really important that we start celebrating our differences. Let's start tolerating first, but then we need to celebrate our differences.
In 1973, a woman could not get a credit card without her husband or father or a male signing off on it.
That is where the power, opportunity, and choice come from-when you have money. Money equals opportunity. There is no question.
Everyone has people in their lives that are gay, lesbian or transgender or bisexual. They may not want to admit it, but I guarantee they know somebody.
I think younger players probably just think they are who they are-they don't think about coming out. Unless you're number one in the world, nobody cares, usually.
Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
I love to promote our sport. I love grass-roots tennis. I love coaching. I love all parts of the sport. I love the business side.
They're not put on earth to be martyrs; they have to want to come out. It depends on your culture, where you work, where you live. Each person's circumstances are unique.
It is very hard to be a female leader. While it is assumed that any man, no matter how tough, has a soft side... and female leader is assumed to be one-dimensional.
I was always in the tennis business-from 1968. I was in tournaments and also on World Team Tennis teams as well.
Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
Any therapist will tell you that when you're ready, you will come out. To be outed means you weren't ready.
The old boy network is still very strong and very true. Just look at the stock exchange and how many men and women are there. It is still very much run by men.
Men still get a lot more opportunity. It is still a big part of the old boy network. They have more companies they can get money from.
Men can have a huge turnover of sponsorship and still survive a lot better than the women. But the women's ratings are better, at least at home in the United States than in the men's tennis.
I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.
I will tell you King's First Law of Recognition: You never get it when you want it, and then when it comes, you get too much.