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- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Heroes
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Christmas
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Country
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- Nov 07, 2020
There is no higher honour in sport than being selected to represent your country and I have certainly taken great pride in always giving my best in my position as Fed Cup captain.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's wonderful being a mother playing anyway.
- Nov 07, 2020
When we used the small-faced racquets and wood racquets, we had to use every part of the court.
- Power
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.
- Education
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- Nov 07, 2020
Racism is about education. Racism is ignorance.
- Early Days
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I went through some racism through my early days and I went back and told Mum... she said, 'Don't worry about that, they're just ignorant.'
- Dreams
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- Nov 07, 2020
After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.
- Must
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.
- Information
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nightclub
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- Nov 07, 2020
I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.
- Earth
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Tennis
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.
- Game
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.
- Name
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have won a few trophies in my time but I have never had a major event name their trophy after me.
- Children
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- Nov 07, 2020
I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.
- King
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had a bit of a reputation as a tomboy.
- Nov 07, 2020
I hated school.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.
- I Am
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- Nov 07, 2020
I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Now that my daughter is 9 and my son is 5, I'm starting to enjoy tennis more. I've been asked to play in the over 35s, and I may do that.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's nice to know you're improving and getting better.
- Nov 07, 2020
Of course, I'm trying to be No. 1.
- Had
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've always had an obsession with rackets.
- Insecurity
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Nov 07, 2020
You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.
- Born
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.
- Half The Time
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I like music and dancing.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
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.'
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?
- Just
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- Nov 07, 2020
I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.
- Lot
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.
- Fun
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- Nov 07, 2020
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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- Nov 07, 2020