Chris Evert Quotes

"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 in Sports quotes.

"You've got to take the initiative and play your game. In a decisive set, confidence is the difference."
-Chris Evert in Decisions quotes.

"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 think they will feel obligated to give back."
-Chris Evert

"She's great for the game. She has that combination of glamour and hard work ethic, ... I think her motives are pure as far as, it means more to her to win tennis tournaments than to be on the cover of a magazine."
-Chris Evert

"Every time, all the time, I'm a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose."
-Chris Evert

"If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that is a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life."
-Chris Evert

"In America we're looking for future stars and we're coming up short a bit, ... There is so much now to choose from. In the '70s (when Evert was the No. 1 player) we didn't have women's basketball and soccer. A lot of our great athletes are going into other sports. But worldwide tennis has made a big jump."
-Chris Evert

"Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far."
-Chris Evert