Keeping a journal Quotes by Martina Navratilova

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else.

— Martina Navratilova

Tennis is the purest form of democracy. There was a symbiotic, chicken-and-egg relationship for me between democracy and tennis.

— Martina Navratilova

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

— Martina Navratilova

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

— Martina Navratilova

When one man becomes more important than the country he's supposed to be leading, this will always create a problem.

— Martina Navratilova

I am not looking for perfection. I look for the best in me.

— Martina Navratilova

I think the key is for women not to set any limits.

— Martina Navratilova

The better I get, the more I realize how much better I can get.

— Martina Navratilova

There was a joke in Czechoslovakia: The Communist Party dance, it's one step forward, two steps backward, and everyone is still clapping.

— Martina Navratilova

The longer I stay in the States, the more I understand how important it is to smile and seem like a nice guy. Like…

— Martina Navratilova

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,…

— Martina Navratilova

I can teach many sports, but obviously, tennis is the one. When you do other sports, you see things from different perspectives: different footwork…

— Martina Navratilova