Evonne Goolagong Cawley

“I like music and dancing.”

“Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.”

“I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.”

“Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.”

“Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.”

“I was just feeling really down and didn't want to play tennis anymore and when I was feeling down like that, what helped me is that I went back to my culture. To walk the Earth.”

“A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.”

“I play better if the matches are tight.”

“I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.”

“I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.”

“You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.”

“In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.”

“When you say sorry it creates a better working relationship.”

“Every time I hit the ball I would pretend I was on that magical court at Wimbledon. And then every time I went to sleep at night I would dream about playing at Wimbledon one day.”

“I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.”

“Once in a while I'll drink a rum-and-Coke but that's all, and only once in a while.”

“I went to Willoughby Girls High, I finished my high school certificate and then I did shorthand and typing the next year. Then started travelling and never used it since.”

“I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.”

“Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match.”

“I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.”