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I think we will have full marriage rights in Colorado. But in 1992, there was a very hateful Amendment 2 that basically made it legal for any institution to deny gays and lesbians access, whether it's hospitals or restaurants or employment. Anybody could fire you or not let you in a restaurant because you were gay.
Martina Navratilova -
I was political by coming out of the womb. I was gay, and I wanted to play tennis.
Martina Navratilova
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I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.
Martina Navratilova -
Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.
Martina Navratilova -
I've always been a rebel, always curious about the world around me.
Martina Navratilova -
I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I got out and, 14 years later, Czechoslovakia became a free country. So I feel anger, even fury, at this bloody system that ruined so many people's lives for no reason whatsoever.
Martina Navratilova -
Julia, I promise to love you, to cherish you, in sickness and in health. No matter what, I will be there for you and our family. I promise not to make the social media another member of our family.
Martina Navratilova -
You can have a coach for five or six years, and eventually, that coach has so little new to say. So get somebody else to give a different point of view. Somebody will see something I don't see and vice versa. You evolve with your game and your coaches.
Martina Navratilova
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I never felt I had anything to hide. I never felt being gay was anything to be ashamed of, so I never felt apologetic. I didn't have issues with it, didn't grow up with any religion, so I didn't have any religious, you know, issues to deal with as far as homosexuality is concerned. So, I accepted it very easily. For me, it wasn't that big a deal.
Martina Navratilova -
You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.
Martina Navratilova -
The Williams girls compete extremely hard on court because they hate losing - it's just that they haven't played an awful lot of tennis over the years.
Martina Navratilova -
I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
Martina Navratilova -
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
Martina Navratilova -
Tennis has given me soul.
Martina Navratilova
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If a man can coach a female, why can't a female coach a male? When I was looking for a coach, the gender of the coach never occurred to me. It was about who I thought was good and who I could get along with and listen to.
Martina Navratilova -
I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.
Martina Navratilova -
The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.
Martina Navratilova -
Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova -
Ted Cruz, if he's elected president, the first thing he will do is return Don't Ask Don't Tell and roll back same-sex marriage laws. Which is law - hello - you can't really take it away. It's really terrifying the direction we're going in now.
Martina Navratilova -
To those people doubting Serena Williams, writing her off - do not do that to a champion.
Martina Navratilova
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Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.
Martina Navratilova -
Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.
Martina Navratilova -
I really couldn't come out until after I got my citizenship, because it was a disclaim - back then, it could have been a disqualifier. I could have been denied my U.S. citizenship because I was gay. So I didn't - I stayed quiet.
Martina Navratilova -
It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.
Martina Navratilova