Goolagong Cawley Quotes & Sayings

There was a time when she had indulged in the hypothetical for hours a day, plotting the map that had led her here. But no life is a line, and hers was an uneven orbit around a dark star, a moth circling a dead bulb, searching for the light it once held. — Anthony Marra

My playing is fairly straightforward, really, and everything's pretty much standard no frills or special effects. — Mark Knopfler

Importent choises in life are always the most hardest — Anji

Neither winning nor losing means as much to me as knowing the crowd has enjoyed my match. Some players feel that winning is everything and that losing is a disaster. Not me. I want the spectators to take home a good memory ... — Evonne Goolagong Cawley

I'm not saying that it's wrong to make huge Hollywood films but it's just a different kind of feeling, a different sort of pleasure. — Roger Michell

Willow trees dipped their bare branches into pond water like girls testing the temperature with their toes. — Elizabeth Berg

When you have a dream you have to work hard to achieve that dream. Your dreams when you are young can be the force that keeps you going. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley

It's something I've always wanted - to be known as an Australian. When I was younger I was always referred to as an Aboriginal tennis player. Now I think the award means that I have been recognised as an entertainer and that makes me happy ... It's given me probably as big a kick as winning Wimbledon. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley

She pitied everyone who didn't have a sister. — Carol Anshaw

We're not motivated by money. We are into this thing that we're building. — David Karp

A shade slinks over me and I'm caught off guard when he leans down, placing a blossom in my cleavage, his face shadowed and secretive. — Poppet

I'm obsessed with my PlayStation. I'll come home and plug away at 'Fallout' for a couple of hours. Or, if I'm feeling the hacking and slashing, I'll play a little 'God of War.' — Tracy Spiridakos

Retirement is not the goal of a surrendered life, because it competes with God for the primary attention of our lives. — Rick Warren

Every time I hit the ball on the wall I uses to pretend I was there (Wimbledon). When I went to sleep I used to pretend I was there. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley

Career is a mindset. The wrong mindset. Career is linear. Especially when you are trapped in the TV or film world. The next thing you do has always got to be bigger, or it is perceived as a failure. — Paul Provenza

It's just that I was thinking you don't ride in that truck of yours, you wear it. — Stephen King

I'm sure many people who discover they are destined to be athletes before they know what kind, go through a period of revelation ... when they realise instinctively that this is their game ... I think I realised that those first couple of summers in Barellan when the War Memorial Tennis Club became my playground. — Evonne Goolagong Cawley