#ports

The difference between the more traditional sports clubs and Congress is that Congress doesn't really compete against another team. ↗

— Cal Thomas

#another #between #clubs #compete #congress

New Yorkers love it when you spill your guts out there. Spill your guts at Wimbledon and they make you stop and clean it up. ↗

— Jimmy Connors

#clean #guts #love #make #new

As athletes, we're used to reacting quickly. Here, it's 'come, stop, come, stop.' There's a lot of downtime. That's the toughest part of the day. ↗

— Michael Jordan

#athletes #come #day #downtime #here

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

#character #feels #know #life #like

Sports are a microcosm of society. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#microcosm #society

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#beginning #finally #get #infancy #passage

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#acceptable #active #athletes #females #had

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#golf #got #i #into #league

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. ↗

— Billie Jean King

#fortune #say #sports #successful #surveys

If they asked me, I did two shifts. I did sports, I did news, because I loved it. ↗

— Larry King

#because #did #i #loved #me