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“Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Funny #Sports #Running
“Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Inspirational #People #Lgbt
“Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Autism #Perception #Matter
“The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Inspirational #Commitment #Eggs
“Just go out there and do what you've got to do.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Career Change
“I think the key is for women not to set any limits.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Inspirational #Thinking #Keys
“The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Business #Victory #Moments
“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.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Animal #Long #Able
“The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Sports #Mark #Worst
“I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Country #Bisexual #Men
“You can't live in the past, there's nothing you can do about it.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Past
“The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Realizing
“Tennis has given me soul.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Tennis #Soul #Given
“Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Motivational #Sports #Practice
“The whole idea of image is so confused. On the one hand, Madison Avenue is worried about the image of the players in a tennis tour. On the other hand, sports events are often sponsored by the makers of junk food, beer, and cigarettes. What's the message when an athlete who works at keeping her body fit is sponsored by a sugar-filled snack that does more harm than good?”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Sports #Confused #Athlete
“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.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Player #Thinking #Self Worth
“On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Sports #Country #Style
“I would have drunk a lot of Pinot Grigio if I'd lost after leading 5-2 in the third.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Drunk #Drink #Lost
“I'm not a one-sex person, and yet I hate the term bisexual. It sounds creepy to me, and I don't think I'm creepy. There are times when I feel downright romantic.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Sex #Hate #Thinking
“Lady' is an opinion; 'woman' is a fact.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Facts #Opinion
“The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Sports #School #Kids
“I just try to concentrate on concentrating.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Focus #Trying #Motivational Tennis
“I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Leadership #Sports #Perfection
“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.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Country #Beach #New York
“All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Player
“Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Dog #Looks #Rooms
“I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Tennis #Goes On #Would Be
“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.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Stay Strong #Quiet #Lied
“Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Feet #Worry #Path
“Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.”
-- Martina Navratilova

#Dream #Believe #Shapes

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