Chris Evert Quotes About Tennis

Quotes about: Tennis

• If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.

  Chris Evert

  Heart, Tennis, Champion

• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

  Chris Evert

  Life, Sports, Attitude

• 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 and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

  Chris Evert

  Selfish, Tunnels, Tennis

  "Billie Jean King and Chris Evert reminisce about tennis careers". Interview with Liz Clarke, www.washingtonpost.com. July 18, 2011.

• 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.

  Chris Evert

  Tennis, Training, Mind

  Chris Evert Lloyd, Chris Evert, Neil Amdur (1982). “Chrissie, My Own Story”, Simon & Schuster

• I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.

  Chris Evert

  Girl, Athlete, Giving

• Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far.

  Chris Evert

  Focus And Concentration, Games, Tennis

• Of all my achievements in tennis, I'm probably as proud of my record on clay courts as any of my Wimbledon, U.S. Open or French singles titles.

  Chris Evert

  Tennis, Achievement, Clay

  FaceBook post by Chris Evert from Dec 05, 2009

• Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

  Chris Evert

  Player, Self, Giving

• 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 of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wrestling, Games, Tennis

• When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher... Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter... I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Teacher, Selfish

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

• When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.

  Chris Evert

  Wind, Play, Tennis

• In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand... I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

  Chris Evert

  Happiness, Winning, Tennis

  "I've Lived A Charmed Life". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

• After being at the top, I don't think I could play senior tournaments, because you know how good you were. I don't know if I would enjoy that, being half of what I was.

  Chris Evert

  Senior, Thinking, Play

  "'I've Lived A Charmed Life'". Interview with Sally Jenkins, www.si.com. May 25, 1992.

• If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

  Chris Evert

  Winning, Accomplishment, Tennis

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