A Quote by Martina Navratilova

When I worked with Billie Jean King and Craig Kardon, and we would be working on something, Billie would show up and say, 'What about this?' Neither one of us had seen it.

Martina Navratilova

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Martina Navratilova
American - Tennis Player
Born: October 18, 1956

I was certainly a kid who believed he could make a difference in the world. I was, as a young person, cooking up plans. My hero is Billie Jean King, and the thing that I find so impressive about Billie Jean is that she took something as banal as playing tennis and used it to change the world. She really did.

Peter Paige

The most exciting match I ever played was the 1974 US Open final against Billie Jean King.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

People will say, 'Who are your role models, and who are your pioneers?' And the first person that comes to my mind is Billie Jean King because we didn't have women that we could watch when I was growing up.

Julie Foudy

Someone like Billie Jean King is completely my idol.

Serena Williams

Because I was a tennis player, Billie Jean King was a hero of mine.

Sally Ride

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Billie-Jean King used to take me out on court and say that she just wanted to watch my forehand. You can't get greater praise than that.

Sue Barker

I had an opportunity to hit tennis balls with Billie Jean King when she was in South Africa when I was 11. She encouraged me to pursue my dream, and I did.

Ilana Kloss

Ali reversed the decision in a second fight with Joe Frazier. That's what would happen if I played Billie Jean again.

Bobby Riggs

Billie Jean King always was there for me as a role model. She always fought for equality, and that always stood out as I was coming up.

Katrina Adams

Seriously, if you complain about going to a Paris fashion show, you have officially lost all perspective on life as we know it. And I have little kids who are hard to be away from sometimes when school's going back and there are tons of things that you're missing. But you know, there's that great Billie Jean King expression: "Pressure is a privilege." We can all deal.

Cynthia Leive

I have stood on the shoulders of giants like Billie Jean King, Hillary Clinton, my mother - people who have really empowered and influenced my life in an incredible way.

Michelle Kwan

I turned 7 in 1973 and remember Bobby Riggs arriving at the Astrodome on a chariot pulled by showgirls before his 'battle of the sexes' tennis match against Billie Jean King.

Steve Rushin

I have the ability to sing with emotion and feeling, but if you say I sound like Billie Holiday, that's cool. Let's look at who Billie was: she was this person, this singer, this beautiful diva who could move the audience with the slightest gesture of her hand.