Martina Navratilova Quotes
May 1, 2006: “Serena
should be in her physical prime, but she is wasting
time you cannot ever get back. She had the opportunity
to be the greatest in history. Instead, she'll
be a supernova who burst on to the scene, and then she
was gone. Serena has a gift, and she's not using
it. What you really regret are the things you didn't
do. Will she get it together, or will she fall so low
she'll need wildcard invitations? She may find
by then that her head will be there, but her body won't.
It's a sad situation.”
— Martina Navratilova,
on absent tennis superstar Serena Williams, in The
Telegraph (UK).
September 12, 2005:
"I think the [ATP] are just trying to get rid of
doubles and they're doing it slowly. I think they're
going at it completely the wrong way. I completely agree
with the players because they had no say in the matter.
The players are against it. The fans are against it.
They want to see doubles. It's just a very near-sighted
decision by the tournament promoters."
— Martina Navratilova, blasting the impending rule changes to men's doubles, saying they will hurt the sport of tennis as a whole.
August 22, 2004: "You look at the Winter
Olympics, you have biathlon. How many people really do
that sport? Or curling? How specific is that? So this
is a sport played by millions and millions, and understood
by millions, and it should be here."
-- Martina Navratilova, on
whether tennis belongs in the Olympics (Note: There
are more member nations in the International Tennis
Federation than in the United Nations)
1991:"I used to carry a gun with me on tour because of the IRA [kidnap] threat."
-Martina Navratilova, in the Daily Mail (UK)
"I played the game the way it ought to be played."
-Martina Navratilova
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