92 Quotes by Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.

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.

I like to be nervous, as I push myself harder.

You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.

People told me I made the game look easy and I didn't always look like I was trying my best, but I always was.

I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.