Chris Evert Quotes

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart.
Chris Evert

Heart, Champion

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

Life, Important, Winning

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

You pay a price for everything in life.
Chris Evert

Life, Pay, Price

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

Confidence, Game, Play

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

Selfish, Champion, Vision

Being famous before you've formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous.
Chris Evert

Famous, Before, Dangerous

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

Life, Best, Yourself

I always looked ahead.
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

Love, Great, Fresh

I still have this image: I can't be controversial, I can't say things.
Chris Evert

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.
Chris Evert

Sports, Giving, Team

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.
Chris Evert

Age, Cool, Young

I was very, very shy as a younger girl, just petrified of people.
Chris Evert

Girl, Shy, Younger

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

Girl, Give, Somebody

I'm not an overly ambitious person; I don't feel like I have to excel.
Chris Evert

Person, Ambitious, Excel

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!
Chris Evert

Again, Getting, Married

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

Life, Fear, Making

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

Win, Again, Loss

Losing hurts me.
Chris Evert

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.
Chris Evert

Best, Losing, Hurts

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

Special, Beginning, Story

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

Game, Far, Percent

Not every child is cut out for an individual sport.
Chris Evert

Child, Individual, Cut

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

Giving, Player, Tennis

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Biography

Nationality: American

Born: December 21, 1954

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