Martina Navratilova Quotes About Tennis

Quotes about: Tennis

• Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Funny, Sports

• The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Commitment, Pigs

• Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

  Martina Navratilova

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Running

• The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Football, Greatness

• Tennis has given me soul.

  Martina Navratilova

  Tennis, Soul, Given

• You don't have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you're a good athlete, it doesn't mean you're not a woman.

  Martina Navratilova

  Athlete, Mean, Play

  MARTINA NAVRATILOVA (1985). “MARTINA”

• I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.

  Martina Navratilova

  Tennis, Would Be, Goes On

• I'm not involved in tennis but committed.

  Martina Navratilova

  Tennis, Committed, Involved

• I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

  Martina Navratilova

  Thinking, Self Worth, Player

• The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Confused, Athlete

  Martina Navratilova, George Vecsey (1986). “Being myself”

• There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Team, Tennis

  Source: www.washingtonpost.com

• The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Country, Men

• Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.

  Martina Navratilova

  Sports, Running, Tennis

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