Martina Navratilova's Quotes

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point.

The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers.

The difference between involvement and commitment is like ham and eggs. The chicken is involved; the pig is committed.

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.

Whoever said, 'It's not whether you win or lose that counts,' probably lost.

If I feel strongly, I say it. I know I can do more good by being vocal than by staying quiet. I'd have a whole lot more money if I lied, but I wouldn't enjoy spending it.

Labels are for filing. Labels are for clothing. Labels are not for people.

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.

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

I hope, when I stop, people will think that somehow I mattered.

I just try to concentrate on concentrating.

I shouldn't say I'm looking forward to leading a normal life, because I don't know what normal is.

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

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years.

I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't.

Just go out there and do what you have to do.

Sure I know where the press room is - I just look for where they throw the dog meat.

Tennis has given me soul.

The more people come out, the less it will be an issue.

Variety is what I would recommend: As variety is the spice of life in food, so it is in exercise. Change it up. But most of all, don't overdo it.

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

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out.