- Billie Jean King: I'm not saying women are better. I've never said that. I'm saying we deserve some respect.
- Bobby Riggs: I'm the ladies number one. I'm the champ. Why would I lose?
- Billie Jean King: Because dinosaurs can't play tennis.
- Cuthbert 'Ted' Tinling: Times change. You should know you just changed them. Someday we will be free to be who we are and love who we love. But now... It's time to join the dance.
- Bobby Riggs: No offense. You're still a feminist, right?
- Billie Jean King: No, I'm a tennis player who happens to be a woman.
- Astrodome TV Director: Zoom in on five. Is that a priest?
- Control Room Worker: Yeah. If Bobby wins, she takes the groom's surname, but if Billie Jean wins, the groom takes her name.
- [last lines]
- Cuthbert 'Ted' Tinling: Times change. You should know that you just changed them.
- [hugs Billie Jean]
- Cuthbert 'Ted' Tinling: Someday we will be free to be who we are and to love who we love. But now... time to join the dance.
- Astrodome Announcer: Ladies and gentlemen... Billie Jean King!
- Bobby Riggs: You and me, Billie Jean. Three sets, five sets - your choice.
- Billie Jean King: Are you drunk, Bobby?
- Bobby Riggs: No, of course not. How about this: "Man vs. Woman". "Male Chauvinist Pig vs Hairy-Legged Feminist".
- Cuthbert 'Ted' Tinling: Now I have to ask, do you really intend to inflict blue suede shoes on ninety million members of the viewing public?
- Billie Jean King: If they're good enough for Elvis, they're good enough for me.
- TV Reporter: Miss King said she will not play for the money but, in her words, "to put women's tennis and women's lib back where it belongs. Riggs said he issued the challenge because "I want to prove that women are lousy and they don't belong on the same court as a man."
- Bobby Riggs: Now, don't get me wrong. I love women, in the the bedroom and in the kitchen. But these days they want to be everywhere! They want to be doing everything! Where is going to end? Pretty soon us fellas are not gonna be able to go to a ballgame, we're not gonna be able to go fishing, we're not gonna be able to stop for a drink after work. And that's what this whole women's lib thing is about. And it's got to stop. And Bobby Riggs is the man to stop it. Ladies and gentlemen, this is Custer's Last Stand. This is the Lobber versus the Libber.
- Gladys Heldman: Are we really gonna do this?
- Billie Jean King: Sure we're gonna do this.
- Gladys Heldman: How are we gonna do this?
- Billie Jean King: No idea.
- [Gladys nods]
- Marilyn Barnett: It must be intoxicating.
- Billie Jean King: What? Playing tennis?
- Marilyn Barnett: Being inside your skin.
- Margaret Court: She
- [Billie]
- Margaret Court: is ashamed. That's exactly what she is. And her game's gonna fall to pieces.
- Billie Jean King: What happened last night can't happen again. We have to stop fooling around.
- Marilyn Barnett: I wasn't fooling around. I was dead serious.
- Larry King: I'm not the competition. I'm just her husband and you're... you're just a phase. We're both just sideshows. Tennis is her true love. And if you get between her and the game, you'll be gone.
- Billie Jean King: You're a good man, Larry.
- Larry King: [on telephone] You're a good woman.
- Billie Jean King: I wish that were true.
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