Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.
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Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.
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I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.
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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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My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.
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About three months after I had Kelly, I went and played in Canada. I felt great, I was ready to go and I was very energetic. But as soon as I started playing, I thought 'no, too soon.' I went back home and slept for two days.
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It's wonderful being a mother playing anyway.
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Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.
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I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.
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I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.
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Usually I have to leave parties early - just when the action is beginning.
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I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.
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I like music and dancing.
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I play better if the matches are tight.
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I just have these lapses. Guess I'm stuck with it. But I play better when I get behind. I say to myself, 'Now I have to play well.'
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I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.
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I have won a few trophies in my time but I have never had a major event name their trophy after me.
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What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.
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If you didn't have power, you had to have touch and serve and volley, which I found very exciting and that's why I love watching Federer play, because of those skills.
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When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.
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It's nice to know you're improving and getting better.
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I guess I had that insecurity of missing out on the normal things that everybody else does. With all the traveling I was doing I felt I was leaving something behind.
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I can't explain why I play belter when I am down. It's the challenge I suppose.
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Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there Wimbledon. When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.