Top 100 Martina Quotes
#1. The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer.
Jo Durie
#2. I really like the thing I did with Martina McBride. I had that song sitting around for a long time.
Bob Seger
#3. I've been talking to Martina [Hingis] about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.
Martina Navratilova
#4. What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.'
- Martina Navratilova
Harsha Bhogle
#5. Martina, she's got several layers of steel out there like a cat with nine lives.
Virginia Wade
#6. 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.
Martina Navratilova
#7. Its super to play with Martina, and she has huge amounts of talent. We have a lot of fun.
Mary Pierce
#8. With a tennis racket strapped tightly to her hiking pack, Martina Navratilova began her ascent of Mount Kilimanjaro. The tennis legend had visions of celebrating at the summit of Africa's highest peak by hitting a couple balls to see how far they might fly in the thin air at 19,341 feet.
Don Yaeger
#9. Martina's gone with people who don't want to be out, and it drives her crazy because she'd rather be open.
Billie Jean King
#10. I just could never have imagined that I would be mentioned with Chris Evert or with Martina Navratilova, because I was just a kid with a dream and a racquet. Living in Compton, this never happened before.
Serena Williams
#11. And now that Martina McBride knows of T.I., and T.I. knows of Martina McBride, that made me very happy, too. It's introducing worlds to different people and bringing them together with a song.
Kid Rock
#12. When Martina is tense it helps her relax.
Dan Maskell
#14. I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head.
Blake Shelton
#15. Martina and I went through a very bad five years. Everything's very good between us now, but it was a long haul.
Billie Jean King
#17. You're torn between wanting to be closer and wanting to push me away," he said. "So I vote for closer. I'll always vote for closer.
Martina Boone
#18. And the '99 finals at the French - if I had won that one easily, no one would have talked about it.
Martina Hingis
#19. I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs.
Martina Hingis
#20. 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.
Martina Navratilova
#21. I'm not a big fan of flying. I definitely try to take the bus whenever I can. I've gotten a little bit better about it, but it was a pretty crippling thing for many years. I feel safer in a private plane.
Martina Mcbride
#22. 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.
Martina Navratilova
#24. I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better.
Martina Hingis
#25. I've been in the twilight of my career longer than most people have had their career.
Martina Navratilova
#26. I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs.
Martina Sorbara
#27. Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers.
Martina Hingis
#28. That's the hardest thing about being a mom. You want to be cool, and you want them to like you all the time, but you can't always have that. You're gonna have times where you have to say no, and you won't be the most popular person in the house.
Martina Mcbride
#29. People in the States used to think that if girls were good at sports their sexuality would be affected.
Martina Navratilova
#31. Losing still hurts, but that's good. When it stops hurting, that's when I stop playing.
Martina Navratilova
#32. I believe everything in moderation. But breakfast is important. I have two hard-boiled or scrambled eggs with whole-wheat toast and try to get some fruit in there.
Martina Mcbride
#33. My dad was a huge country music fan, but he also had a band and he sang. So he'd listen to a lot of music and the songs that he'd learn for the band were more from the male artists. So my earliest country memories were Waylon Jennings, Conway Twitty, George Jones, Johnny Paycheck even.
Martina Mcbride
#34. I always thought it would have been fun to spend an evening with Patsy Cline - just because I think she was really fun and interesting. I think you'd have a really good time with her.
Martina Mcbride
#35. The hardest part of changing things is knowing how much needs changing,
Martina Boone
#36. Playing (Serena) it always felt like playing a steamroller. No subtlety, no finesse, just raw, loud power. To respect this style of play was always a bit tough for me, but of course I had to, because the rules of tennis dont state that having a beautiful game is required to become No. 1.
Martina Hingis
#37. Changes made to please others are unrealistic, but more important, they're unfair to you.
Martina Navratilova
#40. The top players talk more now, and we have more meetings. We're just trying to get things better. But we still need somebody who could make a difference.
Martina Hingis
#41. I think the whole boycott thing was a bit too much. It's because we're accomplished so much in women's tennis in the last two, three years. We deserve something better.
Martina Hingis
#42. There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.
Martina Navratilova
#43. My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you.
Martina Mcbride
#44. I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me, it's about the song. I'm just the lucky girl who gets to sing these songs.
Martina Mcbride
#45. Love's the only house big enough for all the pain in the world.
Martina Mcbride
#46. The longer I stay in the States, the more I understand how important it is to smile and seem like a nice guy. Like Ronald Reagan. Your image seems to count more than what you do.
Martina Navratilova
#47. It occurred to her that all the bad parts of life, the sad parts, the frightening ones, were meant to be offset by moments and memories like this. She had to be present in it, right here, right now.
Martina Boone
#48. The way you look is so dependent on the way you take care of yourself.
Martina Mcbride
#50. Being black only helps them. Many times they get sponsors because they are black. And they have had a lot of advantages because they can always say, 'It's racism.' They can always come back and say, 'Because we are this color, things happen.'
Martina Hingis
#51. Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free.
Martina Boone
#52. What planet are you living on? Who are you trying to convince - me or yourself.
Martina Navratilova
#54. I'm not saying I'm something special. I might play a little better tennis than other people, but it is because I was given the chance, and not many people are.
Martina Hingis
#55. It's not the size of the house. It's how much love is inside.
Martina Mcbride
#56. I kind of just roll up on stage. I realize that as soon as I find myself wearing something that I haven't worn ten times in the past, I'm like, "Who am I right now? I don't recognize myself!"
Martina Sorbara
#57. I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier.
Martina Mcbride
#58. Some days I do well and I eat really healthfully. But I don't think we should deprive ourselves of anything, so some days I indulge and give in to cravings.
Martina Mcbride
#60. Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death.
Martina Devlin
#61. We anyway have to THINK
Why not think BIG
We anyway have to WORK
Why not do what we LOVE
Mala Mary Martina
#62. Family is always a mirror. You can hide from other people, you can even hide from yourself, but your family is going to reflect what you're doing right back at you.
Martina Boone
#63. I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event.
Martina Mcbride
#65. The Beginning of a Happy Ending is not as bad as it sounds.
Elena Martina
#66. Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening.
Martina Boone
#67. Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time.
Martina Navratilova
#68. The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there.
Martina Mcbride
#70. I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules.
Martina Cole
#71. I have a really amazing fan club, it's contemporary but it's a little bit old school. There's a lot of connection. I have a fan club president who really responds to people.
Martina Mcbride
#72. I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty.
Martina Mcbride
#73. When I was 4 my mother got divorced and we were very close to each other. I always wanted to be with her. She took me everywhere. When she went for dinner with friends or when they had meetings at the tennis club, I was always there.
Martina Hingis
#74. Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone.
Martina Navratilova
#75. But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood.
Martina Boone
#76. The way you treat me baby
Cheat and tell me lies
I guess I shouldn't care at all
But still I sympathize
'cause you got heart trouble
Coming on
Yeah you got heart trouble coming on
Well you think that you don't need me baby
But you're gonna miss me when I'm gone
Martina Mcbride
#78. Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn't mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all?
Martina Boone
#80. On Chris Evert: Before I even met her, she stood for everything I admired in this country: poise, ability, sportsmanship, money, style.
Martina Navratilova
#81. I think my body makes itself tired so I don't have the energy to do anything else beforehand. I do jump around a lot on stage, so I guess my body's like, "You are tired now!" As soon as I get onstage the adrenaline takes over. It's a useful mechanism.
Martina Sorbara
#82. Murder is always wrong, doesn't matter who does the killin'. Hurtin' someone else is always wrong. Everyone's got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through.
Martina Boone
#83. I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.
Martina Navratilova
#84. A smile and a sword - the way to conquer kingdoms.
Martina Boone
#85. As long as you loved somebody, each kiss was hope and wonder, but it was also the potential for good-bye.
Martina Boone
#86. Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth.
Martina Boone
#87. Sometimes you just can't have what you want so you have to settle for the best you can get.
Martina Reilly
#88. Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday.
Martina Mcbride
#89. I do yoga, lunges, crunches, things like that for 40 minutes twice a week. For cardio I usually do the elliptical, treadmill or walking.
Martina Mcbride
#90. I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there.
Martina Hingis
#91. You didn't find strength when you couldn't live without it. You found it when you had someone or something you loved so much that it forced you to stretch the edges of yourself further than you thought was possible.
Martina Boone
#92. 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.
Martina Navratilova
#93. I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life.
Martina Hingis
#94. Is there a reason you look like you want to murder me?"
"Not particularly. You have that effect on people.
Martina Boone
#95. It's hard to say no to your kid. It's hard for them to stomp off and not be happy with you for an hour.
Martina Mcbride
#96. I didn't have the same fitness or ability as the other girls, so I had to beat them with my mind.
Martina Hingis
#97. Raising three girls, I think it's important to teach them to support other women.
Martina Mcbride
#98. The best part is seeing my kids grow and become individuals, and the fact that they're happy and well-adjusted.
Martina Mcbride
#100. Love doesn't come with an on-off switch. It's made of too many threads of memory and hope and heartache that weave themselves into the very core of who you are.
Martina Boone
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