92 Quotes by Evonne Goolagong Cawley

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.

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...

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

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.

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.'

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

Once in a while I'll drink a rum-and-Coke but that's all, and only once in a while.

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.

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.