Evonne Goolagong Cawley famous quotes
Last updated: Sep 5, 2024
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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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When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.
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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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Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. 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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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.
-- Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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Have a determination that is strong enough to move walls.
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We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.
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Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.
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The way to get things out of a government is to back them to the wall, put your hands to their throats, and you will get all they have.
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Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.
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I could not sleep when I got on such a hunt for an idea until I had caught it; ...This was a kind of passion with me, and it has stuck by me; for I am never easy now, when I am handling a thought, till I have bounded it north, and bounded it south, and bounded it east, and bounded it west.
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I do play tennis, but I don't really like competition. I'm supposed to be so intense, but I hate competition.
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I know China are very good in table tennis. Let me see what happens in tennis. I am pretty happy with the way I am playing.
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Tennis uses the language of life. Advantage, service, fault, break, love - the basic elements of tennis are those of everyday existence, because every match is a life in miniature.
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You'll hear a lot of applause in your life, but none will mean more to you than that applause from your peers. I hope each of you hears that at the end.
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