92 Quotes by Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I certainly had a lot of fun during my career playing tennis, doing the thing I wanted to do and to do it well.

It's nice to know you're improving and getting better.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.

I was protected from a lot of publicity and politics of life.

Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away.'

We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.

Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.

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.

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.