--- title: "Best Martina Navratilova Quotations" description: "Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. Browse 126 Martina Navratilova quotes." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-martina-navratilova-3608.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b009/author-martina-navratilova-3608.jpg) # Martina Navratilova (1956) Tennis Player **126** quotes in **552** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Martina Navratilova is a tennis player, best known for *The Total Zone*. ## Quick Facts About Martina Navratilova Born October 18, 1956 Profession Tennis Player Notable works The Total Zone ## About Martina Navratilova Martina Navratilova is a Czech-American former professional tennis player. She was ranked world No. 1 in women's singles for 332 weeks, including as the year-end No. 1 seven times, and was world No. 1 in women's doubles for a record 237 weeks. Navratilova won 167 top-level singles titles and 177 doubles titles, including an Open Era record 59 major titles: 18 in singles, an all-time record 31 in women's doubles, and an Open Era record 10 in mixed doubles. Her nine Wimbledon singles titles are an all-time record. Alongside Chris Evert, her greatest rival, Navratilova dominated women's tennis for much of the 1980s. ## Quotes by Martina Navratilova · Page 4 > [I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. I was lucky. I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/i-am-just-sorry-my-own-mother-had-to-live-under-that-regime-for-most/) [Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/) [Anger](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/anger/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/109/martina-navratilova-3608_anger_i-am-just-sorry-my-own-mother-had-to-liv_2885967.jpg) > [I do get pissed off when I'm at some gay event, and there's a 25-year-old, and he has no idea who I…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/i-do-get-pissed-off-when-i-m-at-some-gay-event-and-there-s-a-25-year/) [Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/) [Gay](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/gay/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/6a1/martina-navratilova-3608_gay_i-do-get-pissed-off-when-i-m-at-some-gay_369923.png) > [My mom told me to cover up my arms ever since I was little because I was muscular. She wanted me to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/my-mom-told-me-to-cover-up-my-arms-ever-since-i-was-little-because-i/) [Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/573/martina-navratilova-3608_better_my-mom-told-me-to-cover-up-my-arms-ever_2598169.jpg) > [So many athletes are afraid to use their platform to do the right thing and speak what they feel, and that's very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/so-many-athletes-are-afraid-to-use-their-platform-to-do-the-right/) [Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/2c9/martina-navratilova-3608_afraid_so-many-athletes-are-afraid-to-use-their_2993440.png) > [I regret that I had to leave my country. But I had to do it in order to achieve and decide my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/i-regret-that-i-had-to-leave-my-country-but-i-had-to-do-it-in-order/) [Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/) [Country](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/country/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/bea/martina-navratilova-3608_country_i-regret-that-i-had-to-leave-my-country_2374892.png) > [I tell you, if I was in the same position I was in 1975, trying to leave a communist country and trying…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/martina-navratilova/i-tell-you-if-i-was-in-the-same-position-i-was-in-1975-trying-to/) [Martina Navratilova](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/) [America](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/america/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/784/martina-navratilova-3608_america_i-tell-you-if-i-was-in-the-same-position_2827059.png) ## Martina Navratilova by topic [Tennis (24)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/tennis/martina-navratilova/) [Sports (16)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/sports/martina-navratilova/) [People (15)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/people/martina-navratilova/) [Life (12)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/martina-navratilova/) [Football (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/football/martina-navratilova/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/martina-navratilova/#itemlist", "name": "Martina Navratilova Quotes", "numberOfItems": 6, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "I am just sorry my own mother had to live under that regime for most of her life. 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