180 Quotes by Martina Navratilova

I'm not involved in tennis but committed.

I know some of my self-worth comes from tennis, and it's hard to think of doing something else where you know you'll never be thebest. Tennis players are rare creatures: where else in the world can you know that you're the best? The definitiveness of it is the beauty of it, but it's not all there is to life and I'm ready to explore the alternatives.

I have always had this outrage at being told what to, how to act, whom to love.

Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.

Being blunt with your feelings is very American. In this big country, I can be as brash as New York, as hedonistic as Los Angeles, as sensuous as San Francisco, as brainy as Boston, as proper as Philadelphia, as brawny as Chicago, as warm as Palm Springs, as friendly as my adopted home town of Dallas, Fort Worth, and as peaceful as the inland waterway that rubs up against my former home in Virginia Beach.

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible.

What I would tell girls coming up is just be yourself and don't let people get in the way.

Tennis has given me soul.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.