The best Quotes by Martina Navratilova

The best Quotes by Martina Navratilova

Martina Navratilova (née Šubertová ; born October 18, 1956) is a Czech-American former professional tennis player.

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

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.

Goodbye 2010. If you were a fish, I'd throw you back.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

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Homosexuality & LGBTQ+

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.

Tennis has given me soul.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

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Perfection is impossible. In the 1,526 singles matches I played in my career, I won almost 80% of those matches. But what percentage of points did I win? 54%! In other words, even top ranked tennis players win barely more than half the points they play. When you lose every second point on average, you learn not to dwell on every shot.

Roger Federer - June 2024

Tennis is a mental game. Everyone is fit, everyone hits great forehands and backhands.

Novak Djokovic

Sometimes, I feel like I'm 40. Tennis years are like dog years.

Boris Becker

When I'm not losing, the other guy can't win.

Boris Becker

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory.

Alexander Zverev

You really need to consider the message you're sending this boys by ending the lockout. It's the same message that we as a culture send to our professional athletes; and that is that they are above the law. If these boys cannot honor the simple rules of a basketball contract, how long do you think it will be before they're out there breaking the law? I played ball here at Richmond High 30 years ago. It was the same thing then; some of my teammates went to prison, some of them even ended up dead. If you vote to end the lockout, you won't have to terminate me; I'll quit.

Ken Carter in Coach Carter

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Basketball Sports

Talent sets the floor, character sets the ceiling.

Bill Belichick

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"So we're now going into the year 2020?"
"Yes."
"That means... 2010 has been 10 years ago?"
"Nope. Impossible."

BP will pay for the impact this spill has had on the region.

Barack Obama - 15.06.2010 - BP Oil Spill speech

I am not gay. Although I wish I were, just to piss off homophobes.

Kurt Cobain

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Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Homophobia

Do we have to know who's gay and who's straight? Can't we just love everybody and judge them by the car they drive?

Ellen DeGeneres

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Tolerance Homosexuality & LGBTQ+Cars

None of us should accept a future in which our daughters and granddaughters have fewer rights than we did.

Hillary Clinton - May 2022

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Daughters Women's Rights

The saddest thing a girl can do is dumb herself down for a guy.

Emma Watson

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Feminism Women's Rights Girls

The future is easy because it doesn't exist; but the past is painful because it lives forever.

Maybe the past is like an anchor holding us back. Maybe you have to let go of who you were, to become who you will be.

Carrie Bradshaw in Sex And The City - Season 5 Episode 1

The world worries about disability more than disabled people do.

Warwick Davis

What having a Down's syndrome child isn't - and I feel very strongly about this - is a tragedy. All those pregnancy books you read when you are expecting refer to Down's syndrome as if it were the worst possible outcome, and it's not.

Sally Phillips

I want the same thing I've wanted since I was 7 years old. I want to be No. 1.

Novak Djokovic

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I'm a happy man, because I am successful in what I do, of course; but what makes me most happy is I have people around me that I love and who love me back. This, for me, is the most important thing. Nobody likes to be alone.

Novak Djokovic

I think it's normal that, the first time you meet Federer or Murray or Djokovic, you're going to get nervous. But after a while, they become normal opponents.

Alexander Zverev

Roger Federer Novak Djokovic

Physically, the top players are on a different level to other players, and that's why they're on the top.

Alexander Zverev

We have many animals in Switzerland - even goats.

Roger Federer - asked by a child why people call him GOAT

I'm a very positive thinker, and I think that is what helps me the most in difficult moments.

Roger Federer

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Positive Quotes

I've had to learn to fight all my life - got to learn to keep smiling. If you smile things will work out.

Serena Williams

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Laughing & Smile

Everyone's dream can come true if you just stick to it and work hard.

Serena Williams

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Dreaming Motivation

Trust has to be earned, and should come only after the passage of time.

Arthur Ashe

One important key to success is self-confidence. An important key to self-confidence is preparation.

Arthur Ashe

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Success Self-Confidence

I don't know how good mountain lions do in captivity. I'm curious.

You get these Satanists types that don't believe in God. OK, so you realize you don't get Satan if you don't get God, right? Or atheists that want to believe in ghosts. Wait, wait, wait. You can't have a two-way go on that. You want to be agnostic, be an atheist, fine. But you don't bring ghosts along with you.

Harry and Meghan, move over! This is what fairy tales are made of. They'd been together for two whole weeks, which for teenagers is basically a lifetime of monogamy. Although between us, it had been a surprisingly PG-13 two weeks.

John McEnroe in Never Have I Ever - Season 3 Episode 1

Aunties are older Indian women who have no blood-relation to you. But are allowed to have opinions about your life and all your shortcomings. And you have to be nice to them because you're Indian.

John McEnroe in Never Have I Ever

Does the person in TV have to be better than the one watching at home?

Boris Becker

The coach is always as good and as bad as the player. When the player loses, it's the coaches fault. When the player wins, the coach made a great job. It's the same in tennis and in football.

Boris Becker

What makes something special is not just what you have to gain, but what you feel there is to lose.

André Agassi

If you don't practice you don't deserve to win.

André Agassi

Winning Training

Quitting is never an option.

Ana Ivanovic

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Giving Up Motivation

When you mature, you also get more secure about yourself. You see things differently.

Ana Ivanovic

Age Self-Confidence

Some a-hole leaks it online and I'm like, you know, looking at the guy in the mirror brushing my teeth, "Dude, what have you done? This could be punishable by law!" But the internet forced the studio to say, "We're gonna make this movie", and 24 hours later, that movie had a green light.

Ryan Reynolds - September 2025

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