Motivation Quote by Billie Jean King

King’s praise for “entrepreneurial people” lands like a quiet tell about how she’s always understood power: you don’t wait for permission, you build leverage. Coming from an athlete, the line isn’t business-bro worship; it’s a translation of competitive instincts into social strategy. “Entrepreneurial” here is less about startups than self-authorship - the willingness to invent your own lane when the existing one is rigged.

The repetition - “I like... I like...” - is doing cultural work. It’s not a manifesto, it’s a preference, almost casual, which makes the value judgment feel nonnegotiable. King frames risk-takers as people she gravitates toward, implying a community of choice: if you want change, you spend time with the people who will stake something to get it.

The subtext is inseparable from her history. King didn’t just play tennis; she helped restructure it, pushing for equal prize money and professional opportunities for women, then proved the point in the most theatrical way possible with the Battle of the Sexes. That kind of career teaches a specific lesson: institutions rarely hand you fairness, and “risk” is the admission fee for rewriting the rules.

In today’s language, the quote reads as a rebuke to safe excellence - the idea that you can stay within the lines and still transform the game. King’s real admiration is for agency: people willing to be disliked, doubted, or financially exposed so something better can exist afterward.