Billie Jean King Quotes
Quotes to Explore
-
Yes, all fundamentalists feel that in a secular society, God has been relegated to the margin, to the periphery and they are all in different ways seeking to drag him out of that peripheral position, back to center stage.
-
In sports, teams win and individuals don't.
-
Together we will act to bring about national reconciliation, secure Malaysia's economic future, and build a stronger, more harmonious society.
-
The best kids are going to become the best. But the best thing about it is that you're going to learn lessons in playing those sports about winning and losing and teamwork and teammates and arguments and everything else that are going to affect you positively for the rest of your life.
-
Do our children now have to choose between getting an education and dying? Some of us cannot move on and accept that kind of society.
-
Contemporary art will help me to modernise our society.
-
I'm very passionate about the use of sports in young people's lives to build self-esteem and self-discipline and self-confidence. It's been a big thing for me.
-
Baseball was, is and always will be to me the best game in the world.
-
Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
-
Some people think that religion is not essential to society. I do not hold this view. I consider the foundation of religion to be essential to the life and practices of a society.
-
The stance I took was there is no room for racial bias anywhere in sports. I believe that was basically all I said about it. Certainly I was cast as an abolitionist. Death threats came. Hate mail came.
-
I grew up playing video games. And the cool thing about the EA Sports games is they took me through the whole motion-capture thing, where they put little sensors on my body so the video game really is me. It actually moves the way I move.
-
My view is that when in doubt, society should err on the side of life.
-
The Border Ballads, for instance, and the Robin Hood Ballads, clearly suppose a state of society which is nothing but a very circumscribed and not very important heroic age.
-
Sports without music is just a game. Music makes it entertaining.
-
When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
-
It's a crazy world, so sports and athletics and music can be a form of escapism.
-
We're not going to create a more equal society by not prodding at it, are we?
-
Society has a problem with female nudity when it is not . . . ”—Badu pauses to get her words together; she wants this point to be very clear—“. . . when it is not packaged for the consumption of male entertainment. Then it becomes confusing.
-
What is this gallery? Why should she have a gallery of things done by us?
-
The power system continues only as long as individuals try to get something for nothing. The day when a majority of individuals declares or acts as if it wants nothing from the government, declares that it will look after its own welfare and interests, then on that day the power elites are doomed.
-
How sweet war is to such as know it not.
-
I was a swimsuit model, and I got bored. Acting was challenging. It was very hard and intimidating. We choose to do things in life sometimes that scare the crap outta us. Performing in front of people was my challenge.
-
Sports are a microcosm of society.
