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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• I think the tennis is only a game. You can lose. You can win. After that? In life, there are much more important things than tennis.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Life
  • Important
  • Game

• 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

• Actors need bricks to play with, and in fact we rejected all the improvised fragments we had made without a plan. Improvisation without a plan is like tennis without tennis balls.

  

  Lars von Trier
  • Play
  • Tennis
  • Plan

• To win a gold medal at Olympic Games has long been my dream ever since I started my career as a table tennis player.

  

  Ma Long
  • Long
  • Career
  • Dream

• 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

• I have to use other things to help my tennis, like my brain. But I believe that, even when your muscles are not so fast, with the brain and with concentration you can compensate.

  

  Marion Bartoli
  • Believe
  • Help
  • Brain

• If you offer athletes stipends, then you're into pay-for-play, and that's the ballgame. People should realize that, and they should realize that amateurism never has been a sustainable model for a sports-entertainment industry. It wasn't in tennis. It wasn't in the Olympics. And it's not in big-time college sports.

  

  Charlie Pierce
  • People
  • Time
  • College

• 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

• I was interested in the narrative of how we nurture our elite in this society: all that stuff about believing in yourself and not accepting second best. Our inner world is at odds with that.

  

  Lenny Abrahamson
  • World
  • Society

• Learn at least two classic ballroom dances, at least one of them Latin.

  

  Marilyn vos Savant
  • Latin

• It is courage the world needs, not infallibility...courage is always the surest wisdom.

  

  Wilfred Grenfell
  • Wisdom
  • Courage
  • Needs

• There are people who have really high expectations for what we're doing. I have to not think about that so that I can be free and play around every day and not feel like I have to get it right. You want to be loose.

  

  Katherine Waterston
  • People
  • High
  • Free

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

  

  Evonne Goolagong Cawley
  • Tennis
  • Occupation
  • Washing