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Billie Jean King

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“Oh for sure. You always wonder Especially when you didn't make it happen. You know, if I didn't make it happen, I go, God, where did I go wrong? But you know what? You're only as good as the team is. Also, relationships are everything. They really are.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“That's really what I love. Like, starting the women's sports foundation, I founded it 50 years ago. We have our 50th anniversary this year. I am so stoked. We've given out over $100 million of just helping kids, especially girls of color. Also, we work with the National Women's Law Center.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Daydreaming, lying down on the bed and just thinking, you know what? I'm going to not only accept this, I'm going to thrive on it because I'm meant to. You know, I thought back to my epiphany as a kid, how I felt about everything. I go, what am I doing? I'm meant to do this. And that was it. I just embraced it and absolutely decided to be the best leader I could be. But to be a great leader to means, for instance, it can't be a me. You have to be we, or you can't be I. You have to be us, you know, or you have to include others in your. It's always about what can I do to help the people have a better life? How can I make it better for all of us? But particularly them first. And that's what makes me tick is creating opportunities for others”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Know, but I was always pushed into leadership positions and finally in Tennessee, even when we're older, you know, the players said, no, you're the one, you're the one. I go, no, no, no. Why not you? When I, you know, typical girls, you know, when they're trying to go out to dinner, where do you want to go to eat? Oh, I don't care. So if there was a guy in the group, I always ask the guy, go, what do you want? And he goes, I want to go here. We go, great. Someone made a decision because we're taught always to think about somebody else. Okay. Always take care of the other. So anyway, the players pushed me. Finally, I just remember one night just kind of.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, we had in elementary school, which I have no idea what it means now. No, I think we had to keep our bikes a certain area. We had to take care of them. We had to put them in these racks. You know, you just do the right thing and all that at the school, keep them in the right place. I love that. So I was on that committee and then...”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“They're very good to each other and very kind and thought about others. But also, you know, leaders don't choose followers. Followers choose leaders. And a lot of times in sports, you need somebody to choose a team, for instance. And the kids always chose me to be the leader or the captain. And I was on a bicycle committee, and I was only supposed to be the secretary, but they ended up always saying, you lead, you do this. I go, no, no, no, you do. Wait a minute.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I think my parents were good to each other, kind to each other, which I think was huge. Just watching how they related, not to say it was perfect or anything, God knows that, but they get into it, but not.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And while black people weren't allowed to play until 1950, and that's when Althea was a player of the 50s, and that's when she won everything. And she won the U.S. Nationals. Now they would be the U.S. Open. And she was the first to win without her, there wouldn't have been a Arthur Ash or Zena Garrison or Serena or Venus or all these great players. And so I think that was a good example.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“To that country. Absolutely. Everybody wore white clothes. Everybody played with white balls and everybody played with white. I said, that's not right. This belongs to everyone. It's such a great sport. Although I didn't have the know-how, 12 years old, that there were black people playing, but I had never seen them. But they were, they formed their own association, the ATA in 1916. So they had their tournaments, but they weren't allowed to play in the white tournaments. Just like if you go to the U.S. Open today, which a lot of people do, it's huge. It's one of the majors.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“No, it wasn't tennis. It was life. It was like watching Little Rock and the Little Rock Nine or watching that black kids couldn't go to school with the white kids. And I asked my dad, why is that? That's ridiculous. He says, well, it's the And because in Southern California, that never happened to me. I mean, it didn't matter. That really bothered me.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, well, I shouldn't leave to. Of course, that was my goal since the time I was 11, to be number one in the world. There was no question. Still to see Althea made a huge difference in my life in that.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I mean, hello. It's like everyone can be. Role model for somebody if that's what the person likes. Like for me, Althea Gibson was my first shiro. And she was the first to win. And I didn't think of her that way. I thought of her as the number one player. And if you can see it, you can be it. So I saw her live when I was 13, and I realized how good I'd have to be. And I went, oh my gosh, I'm going to have to be that. Oh, I'm going to have to practice so hard. Oh, my God.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“All right, let's take commercials on television. Let's just take commercials. And not just television, obviously, it's everything now. Yeah. I'd like people to, when they watch commercials, to really pay attention to who's in them. Let's just talk about the ones athletes are in. It's usually male athletes. They're older, but they are the ones who get the ads. If you see a woman, she's usually a lot younger, probably around 30. They don't give us the same opportunities. You know how many times they'll have a woman athlete or any woman and they'll say she's such a great role model for women. Now go to a male. If a male's a role model, they don't say, oh, he's a great role model for men. He's a great role model”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“It is a privilege to have our opportunities for you to do what you've done and continue to do and what I do and what I did. You know what I don't like about getting older people give up on you.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“The pressure that's on you, like they say, let's go, you know, and you have to start the scene. And of course, if it's not live, which I'm sure you're thrilled with Seinfeld and others, that you weren't live because I don't know how you guys get through a scene without cracking up at each other.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“I've started lifting weights again. I made a promise this year instead of doing it sporadically, I'd be pretty consistent, which I have been. But we're still working full-time. And work itself and traveling like we do. I think also keeps me fit. Also keeps my mind active, solving challenges, not problems. I am so happy I was in sports because it's made me strong. It's just helped me be strong in every way. There's something, well, it must be like you when you're acting. I always wonder what actors go through.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And that's really what I wanted us to be a pro sport. We were an amateur sport. It was so terrible. I used to just go crazy.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Well, to me it was because he believed in me as much as my brother as well. Yeah. I mean, he told me to go for it. Everybody else around me is saying, huh? They didn't really care, but I really wanted to change the world through sports through my sport.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Just let it go. They said, just ignore it. Don't worry, just keep going. My mother didn't want me to play football and other sports because she wanted me to be a lady at all times. And I said, Mommy, what does that mean? She said, Oh, you know. And I said, no, mommy, I don't know what that means. I just remember that. So when I was playing tennis, she was happier, happier. But my dad understood totally. Join the NBA, and he didn't because there wasn't any money at the time, and he's very risk-adverse that generation with the Depression, World War II. No, he came home and became a firefighter, which I love that he was a firefighter. Oh, God.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, I got an unsatisfactory set of satisfactory in fourth grade because Ms. Polachek said that I had done too well in sports and, you know, kind of like braggie over. I didn't say anything. I just did it. And she said, I'm going to give you an unsatisfactory because of that. Now, that would never, to a boy, he would be honored and”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Yeah, brilliant. That's very interesting because in school, I got demoted with my grades when I did too well in sports because I'm a girl.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“And you want to be playing in front of people, you're a performer. It's so much fun. It's very expressive. It's like, I love dance. I love ballet. I love all that. I like to.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh, the brain definitely goes a little faster than the body now, but my brain's slower too. I think I've always been in tune with my body. I just saw everybody knows a lot of people do know this. A lot of people do not. I have a younger brother. He's five years, almost five years younger, four years, 11 months. Randy Moffat's our birth name, and he played professional baseball for 12 years. Most of those with the San Francisco Giants. But the third word we learned was ball, you know, mommy ball, daddy ball. We are infatuated. They can roll it on the ground. They can throw it in the air. We didn't care. And then as you get older, though, you start to realize it's science and art together.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“What about physical therapy? I don't need physical therapy. Well, a lot of my wife got me out during COVID to hit tennis balls again. I hadn't for 20 years had a lot of knee operations and shoulder everything. And I said, okay, let's try because I just love it so much. I mean, I love to hit the ball. So we do two or three times a week now. She hits, you know, Lana was number one in the world in doubles, and she still plays a lot. So she's younger. She's in her late 60s. So she hits the ball right to me. It's just amazing. I meet people who are playing and we have a 100 and under event category from people that are 100 and under. And it is hilarious. You know what shop they use all the time is a drop shot because you can't move and it's hilarious.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Your health and how you feel, and how do you feel? How do I feel physically, emotionally, mentally? You know, I ask myself those questions. I mean, I still do therapy every week, psychotherapy.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Don't know what's 80 supposed to feel like I always ask myself when I was 60, when I was 50, when I was 40, when I was 30, when I was 20, I'm like, what am I supposed to feel? I don't know. I am what I am. The number is there, but it's really how it's my health, I think.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT
“Oh no, I'm not done yet. Are you kidding? Everybody says, well, now that you're so old, you know, what are you going to do? And I said, I'm not done yet.”
2024-11-28 · On with Kara Swisher · Wiser Than Me with Julia Louis-Dreyfus: Billie Jean King · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT