180 Quotes by Martina Navratilova

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.

You can’t live in the past, there’s nothing you can do about it.

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

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that’s where it’s at for top players.

You don’t have to be pretty for people to come and see you play. At the same time, if you’re a good athlete, it doesn’t mean you’re not a woman.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I’d have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn’t enjoy spending it.

People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.

So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very depressing. Sure, they are afraid of insulting people and losing money because of it, and everyone wants to make the maximum amount of money in their lifetime. But at the expense of who you are? I don't know. That just wasn't in my DNA.

I was always controversial, being gay, so nothing was more controversial than that.