Billie Jean King Wins Sports Illustrated’s 2021 Muhammad Ali Legacy Award
By Jenny Vrentas, published to Sports Illustrated
Inside Billie Jean King’s medicine cabinet hangs an index card. She affixed it there with Scotch tape so that she sees it every day when she goes to get her Listerine or face cream. In her handwriting is a quote from Coretta Scott King: “Struggle is a never-ending process. Freedom is never really won. You earn it and win it in every generation.”