Chris Evert Quotes

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• A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.
• I realized that with hard work, the world was your oyster. You could do anything you wanted to do.
• If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
• Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
• Single-mindedness. I hate to say it because I don't think it's the best thing for developing a person, but the single-mindedness - just concentrating in…
• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day…
• There were times when deep down inside I wanted to win so badly I could actually will it to happen. I think most of my…
• Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
• Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.
• When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
• You're always striving to play that perfect match.
• I can definitely say the same thing [discussing Steffi Graf's claim that she had played against at least one top player who used steroids]. Steroids…
• You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.
• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.
• Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.
• To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish…
• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.
• I wanted always to appear strong and in control . . . .Then the cookie began to crumble.
• When I play, I'm boiling inside. I just try not to show it because it's a lack of composure, and if you give in to…
• Don’t let a first-set victory lead into a second-set slump

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