Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilova
Martina Navratilovais a retired Czech and American tennis player and coach. In 2005, Tennis magazine selected her as the greatest female tennis player for the years 1965 through 2005...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTennis Player
Date of Birth18 October 1956
CityPrague, Czech Republic
CountryUnited States of America
sports team tennis
There is no cheap way to achieve the ability to turn pro in tennis; it unfortunately is more expensive than team sports.
sports running tennis
Sport doesn't know barriers, really. You are judged on your performance... how far you can jump, how fast you can run, how well you can hit a tennis ball.
tennis goes-on would-be
I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German.
tennis committed involved
I'm not involved in tennis but committed.
tennis soul given
Tennis has given me soul.
focus trying motivational-tennis
I just try to concentrate on concentrating.
tennis career-change
Just go out there and do what you've got to do.
sports tennis mark
The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst.
fun good help needed organize somebody trust words
It was time-consuming, but it was fun. I needed somebody to help organize it, I'm not very good at that, but all the words are mine. Trust me on that one.
convince couple martina maybe playing talking
I've been talking to Martina about playing for a couple of years. Maybe I can convince her to play some doubles.
ten
Ten years from now we're going to say, 'How could we have done without it?'
became injuries
We should have had the off-season long ago, even before injuries became such a big part of the game,
cover open tv
I don't know why the TV doesn't cover it more, ... You don't even know about it when I'm in the U.S. Open semifinals.
good olympic serve
On my first serve of the match, I thought: 'OK, this is your first Olympic toss.' And it was a good one, and a good serve, and that was all the jitters I had.