Martina Navratilova Quotes

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

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

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible. Once you start believing in yourself, your dreams take shape. The more you believe, the more you achieve.

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

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

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

Once you start believing in yourself, anything is possible.

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

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What matters is how well you play when you're playing badly.

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

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

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

If it feels right in your gut, this is who you are, this is what you do, this is what you feel, then don't hide that. You just stick to it and the world will catch up.

Concentration is born on the practice court... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit.

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life.

Just go out there and do what you've got to do.

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.

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, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back.

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

People who are rich want to be richer, but what's the difference? The toys get different, that's all. The rich guys buy a football team, the poor guys buy a football. It's all relative.

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing.

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.

Lady' is an opinion; 'woman' is a fact.

I came to live in a country I love; some people label me a defector. I have loved men and women in my life; I've been labeled the bisexual defector. Want to know another secret? I'm even ambidextrous. I don't like labels. Just call me Martina.

Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.