Evonne Goolagong Cawley quotes
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“Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there.”
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“When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going.”
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“I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation... when they realise instinctively that this is their game... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground.”
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“Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory...”
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“It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon.”
-- Evonne Goolagong Cawley
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“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
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“Wild Eyes was built for speed and I was flying down walls of water twenty and thirty feet high.”
Source : Abby Sunderland, Lynn Vincent (2011). “Unsinkable: A Young Woman's Courageous Battle on the High Seas”, p.11, Thomas Nelson Inc
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“Sleeping on it didn't make accepting it any easier. It seemed like a really bad dream.”
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Source : "Henin-Hardenne survives in Qatar", cnn.com. March 3, 2004.
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Source : Andre Agassi (2009). “Open”, p.378, Vintage
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