Martina Navratilova Quotes

The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

Martina Navratilova

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• But as a young kid, I never did, really have an ambition to be a farmer. I never thought, gee, I would like to farm, and I want to raise these crops. I didn't quite know what I wanted to do.

  

  Sam Donaldson
  • Want
  • Thought
  • Ambition

• I try to stay as naive as possible so I'm not as aware as much of the risks.

  

  Sam Hunt
  • Try
  • Possible
  • Risks

• What happened? The Country got sick of it and said, Enough is enough. And all over the Country we saw springing up community organizations determined to do something about this terrible menace of drugs.

  

  Barry McCaffrey
  • Up
  • Country
  • Community

• I've learned never say never.

  

  Carl Forti
  • Never
  • Say
  • Learned

• In 1787, many Americans were convinced that the 'perpetual union' they had created in winning independence was collapsing. Six years earlier, in the Articles of Confederation, the thirteen state governments had surrendered extensive powers to a congress of delegates from each state legislature.

  

  Edmund Morgan
  • Winning
  • Years
  • Independence

• I will end the history of division and conflict through reconciliation and fairness.

  

  Park Geun-hye
  • History
  • End
  • Conflict

• I don't stop at my past; I like new work. I like what I'm doing tomorrow.

  

  Patrick Demarchelier
  • Work
  • Past
  • Stop

• I've learned, after 18 years of gathering information, to eat, then check in with my body - how do I feel? I've learned to eat whatever makes my body feel good. As a teenager, I was just so confused, overwhelmed by all the information.

  

  Carla Korbes
  • Good
  • Body
  • Information

• We really tried hard not to make it a cricket book, it appeals to a much wider community.

  

  Hansie Cronje
  • Book
  • Community
  • Cricket

• Some growths can be detected early, making for increased accuracy in diagnosis. Some can be cured and others controlled.

  

  Harold E. Varmus
  • Early
  • Others
  • Accuracy

• I've had the same friends since I was in kindergarten.

  

  J. J. Abrams
  • Friends
  • Same
  • Kindergarten

• This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

  

  Laura Schlessinger
  • Life
  • Want
  • Fear

• If your dream is to tell stories, interesting stories, play interesting people, that's the bottom line. The people that I play have to be extraordinary.

  

  Eddie Redmayne
  • People
  • Dream
  • Interesting

• Life finds its purpose and fulfillment in the expansion of happiness.

  

  Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
  • Life
  • Purpose
  • Happiness

• More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.

  

  Valentina Tereshkova
  • Good
  • Women
  • Space

• I don't think music affects what words I choose to type in what order, within what punctuation, at this point, because I'm rereading and editing each sentence, at this point, in my published books, probably 100-150 times each, on average, and listening to probably 20-60 different songs in that time.

  

  Tao Lin
  • Time
  • Music
  • Different

• I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.

  

  Vicky McClure
  • People
  • Know
  • Never

• I have always, or for the most part, identified myself as a biracial person.

  

  Keegan-Michael Key

• What is more important is that Foreign Service Officers understand business, about the needs of U.S. business and how to help U.S. companies make the right connections abroad.

  

  Lawrence Eagleburger
  • Important
  • Business
  • Help

• I don't believe in the meteoric culture of anxiety, generally. Obviously, some people have it, some people are crippled by it, but most of the novelists I've ever known are in love with influence. They thrive on it.

  

  Andrew O'Hagan
  • People
  • Believe
  • Culture

• I still think it's essential for a parent to cook with their children. Weighing out the ingredients and learning where the food comes from is educational, but it also helps to place meal times at the heart of family life. We never had dinner in front of the TV.

  

  Mary Berry
  • Life
  • Children
  • Family

• Golf is supposed to be fun, but I don't think anything is fun if you're not doing it reasonably well.

  

  Fred Couples
  • Fun
  • Golf

• My mother is a fighter. After she battled polio and learned to walk again, the doctors told her she would be a cripple her entire life. Instead of accepting defeat, she refused this fate and went on to become the West African Women's Singles tennis champion in college.

  

  Uzo Aduba
  • Life
  • Women
  • She

• The Czech tennis federation wasn't holding me back, but they could still pull the plug anytime they wanted.

  

  Martina Navratilova
  • Tennis