Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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When I started I was pretty well the only Aboriginal player who was playing tournaments.
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Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
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I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.
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Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.
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Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.
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Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
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I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
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Now that my daughter is 9 and my son is 5, I'm starting to enjoy tennis more. I've been asked to play in the over 35s, and I may do that.
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I never think I'm going to lose.
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I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.
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There is no higher honour in sport than being selected to represent your country and I have certainly taken great pride in always giving my best in my position as Fed Cup captain.
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I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.
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I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.
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Concentration may be my weak point.
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Mum and Dad have come to Sydney to see me off on the two trips to Wimbledon. Each time I thought I mustn't cry 'cos that'll start Mum off. Each time I really bawled, and then she started up.
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Of course, I'm trying to be No. 1.
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Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.
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When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'
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Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.
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I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.
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I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.
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When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.
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I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.
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I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.