Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes
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I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.
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You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.
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When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.
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I had to stay in school before I started travelling overseas.
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I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.
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Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory.
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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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I was just feeling really down and didn't want to play tennis anymore and when I was feeling down like that, what helped me is that I went back to my culture. To walk the Earth.
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When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
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We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.
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I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.
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When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.
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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.
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My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.
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A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.
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The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.
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I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
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I like to be nervous, as I push myself harder.
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There are about 100 Aboriginal communities in Australia, and I'm trying to visit as many as possible to learn as much as I can.
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I remember I hadn't bought anything for my Mum for Christmas and I actually won an iron, so I was excited that I could take that home for her.
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I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at the draw.
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Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.
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I can think of matches I played where I played one or two points perfectly, and that gave me a thrill.