Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.

Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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• There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.

  

  Rahul Dravid
  • Want
  • Doing
  • Tennis

• In tennis, you can have a bad set and still win. The part of track cycling that is difficult to find in other sports is that it's so final; there's no second chance if you make a mistake.

  

  Victoria Pendleton
  • Bad
  • Sports
  • Mistake

• What these guys are doing is great for Argentinean tennis. This is motivating other people.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • People
  • Great
  • Doing

• I never thought tennis was going to give me so much satisfaction.

  

  Gabriela Sabatini
  • Me
  • Thought
  • Tennis

• It's more a tennis problem than a mental problem. The transition is difficult. It depends how much time you have. Playing on grass can sometimes be a bit of a lottery.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Time
  • Problem
  • Tennis

• I love to play tennis. I play a lot in the summer. I'm not a big golfer; I need something a bit more intense.

  

  Carl Hagelin
  • Love
  • Play
  • Summer

• I guess tennis is my main art, but fashion is definitely very close.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Art
  • Fashion
  • Tennis

• I have been taking stock of my 50 years since I left Wichita. How I have existed fills me with horror for I failed in everything. Spelling, arithmetic, writing, swimming, tennis, golf, dancing, singing, acting, wife, mistress, whore, friend, even cooking. And I do not excuse myself with the usual escape of not trying. I tried with all my heart.

  

  Louise Brooks
  • Writing
  • Trying
  • Heart

• I've got my advanced scuba diving license. I'm playing tennis and exercising. I ride my bike everywhere. I've been finding new things. I've been more creative in music and doing different videos. And just meeting different people and being around and present. I'm wonderful when I'm just on nothing.

  

  Albert Hammond, Jr.
  • People
  • Music
  • Different

• When I came to Spain, I joined a tennis academy, and that was where I learnt the game.

  

  Garbine Muguruza
  • Game
  • Tennis

• In a perfect world, my tennis game gets better. I have kids and a beautiful wife and live on some hill somewhere that's not in Los Angeles. And the script that Tom Hanks just barely turned down gets in my hands.

  

  Matthew Perry
  • World
  • Live
  • Kids

• I lived in Hollywood long enough to learn to play tennis and become a star, but I never felt it was my home. I was never looking for a home, as a matter of fact.

  

  Paulette Goddard
  • Long
  • Home
  • Star

• When I don't enjoy it anymore, I'll stop. But I think as long as people want me to be where the action is, I'll be there. I just love to play tennis.

  

  Bobby Riggs
  • People
  • Long
  • Action

• I have always been very dedicated to tennis, and it's true that I made some compromises in my life. For example, I never went out to parties when I was younger, and I spent less time with friends.

  

  Ana Ivanovic
  • Life
  • Time
  • Friends

• With tennis, you can go pick up a racket, take a lesson, and understand how much talent and skill it takes to be as good as the top pros. Same with golf: pick up a club. But not many can go out and get in a race car and experience a drive at over 200 miles an hour.

  

  Mario Andretti
  • Up
  • Good
  • Experience

• It makes you also realize, 'OK, I'm excited to play tennis, and I work really hard to be the best tennis player I think I can be,' but I don't waste my time on stupid stuff, you know what I mean.

  

  Kim Clijsters
  • Time
  • Work
  • Player

• Tennis lets you talk while you're playing.

  

  Jane Kaczmarek
  • Tennis

• There are a lot of pretty girls. I am a tennis player first of all, that is why I am here, and if wasn't producing results no one would notice me.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Why
  • Pretty
  • Player

• I grew up a little girl in the Soviet Union playing at a small sports club. Tennis gave me my life.

  

  Anna Kournikova
  • Life
  • Up
  • Girl

• I have a great team. A lot of my focus every day is with my television and film career, directing and producing, and I guess you can say that my moonlighting gig is Tropfest. Obviously, when I am not working I am in the Tropfest office full-time.

  

  John Polson
  • Time
  • Great
  • Career

• Teachers deserve more respect than many give them, and more opportunities than the system affords them today.

  

  Betsy DeVos
  • Today
  • Respect

• Spirit is not a mystic concept. The spirit of a person is manifest in her aliveness, brightness of his eyes, in the resonance of her voice and in the ease and gracefulness of his movements. These qualities are related to and stem from a high level of energy in the body... Sensing the harmony between the internal pulsation of our body and that in the universe, we feel identified with the universal, with God. We are like tuning forks vibrating at the same pitch.

  

  Alexander Lowen
  • God
  • High
  • Energy

• There's something about the theater which makes my fingertips tingle.

  

  Wole Soyinka
  • Theater
  • Fingertips

• I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Tennis
  • Occupation
  • Washing