If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that’s a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there’s going to be a life after tennis that’s a lot longer than your tennis life.
Chris Evert
Being famous before you’ve formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
Chris Evert
Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.
Chris Evert
If you’re a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
Chris Evert
I love hiking in the mountains in Aspen. Breathing the clean, fresh air is great. Plus, it gives me a cardiovascular workout and firms my legs.
Chris Evert
Find something that you’re really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.
Chris Evert
Ninety percent of my game is mental. It’s my concentration that has gotten me this far.
Chris Evert
You can’t give up! If you give up, you’re like everybody else.
Chris Evert
Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.
Chris Evert
You’ve got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference.
Chris Evert
Relationships are give-and-take, and when you’re a tennis player, you’re certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.
Chris Evert
When I was younger, I was a robot. Wind her up and she plays tennis.
Chris Evert
To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.
Chris Evert
If I win seven tournaments in a row, I get so confident I’m in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.
Chris Evert
Every time, all the time, I’m a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose.
Chris Evert
I always looked ahead.
Chris Evert
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people. Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Chris Evert
I’m not an overly ambitious person; I don’t feel like I have to excel.
Chris Evert
I still have this image: I can’t be controversial, I can’t say things.
Chris Evert
I was labeled at a young age – Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.
Chris Evert
I’ve had a lot of fear in my life, from fear of flying to fear of making a speech in front of a lot of people.
Chris Evert
You pay a price for everything in life.
Chris Evert
When you’re a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks.
Chris Evert
Losing hurts me.
Chris Evert
Tennis helped give me an identity and made me feel like somebody.
Chris Evert
I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.
Chris Evert
My first U.S. Open I think was just very special for me because that was sort of the beginning of what was a ‘Cinderella’ story for me.
Chris Evert
I think team sports probably teach you more about giving – about being unselfish and being flexible.
Chris Evert
Even though there are a lot of bright tennis players out there, you still have to protect yourself and save all your mental and emotional energies for tennis.
Chris Evert
I’m not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again – not even talking to one!
Chris Evert