Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

It's a huge change for your body. You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

With a new baby, you have a bad day now and again because you're particularly tired, but most of the time, you're fine. You spend a lot of your time trying to figure out how you can get more sleep, but really, you're better off just giving up and admitting that you're not going to, so forget about it.

I tried to kickbox once right after I had my first baby, and I was so miserable; it was so hard. And I went home, and I passed out for three hours because it's so hard.

You don't even want to look in the mirror after you've had a baby, because your stomach is just hanging there like a Shar-Pei.

The difference in my body from pre-pregnancy to post-baby was night and day. I didn't have the strength, I didn't have the flexibility, I didn't have the stamina, I didn't have the mobility. I felt like I was handicapped.

A few months post-baby is not the easiest time to pull out your best yoga poses.

When I was playing I felt tired all the time. My recovery period was a lot longer than the other players. They'd be ok after an hour - I'd have to stay in bed till the next session.

When I look back to when I had my first son, I was unhappy. I couldn't understand why the weight wasn't just falling off.

I'm going to keep it real gully with you; the first two months, I wanted to give him back. I expected someone to come and save me because after you have the baby, nobody cares about you anymore. Nobody cares if you sleep, nobody cares if you eat. It's just you and this all-consuming thingy!

Pregnancy is uncomfortable and draining, and the end isn't in sight until it becomes unbearable.

Most new moms, and even experienced moms, have questions in the months after giving birth. Pregnancy books don't explain everything, and you may be caught off guard by some things that are happening both to you and to your baby in those first few months.

You never know what state you're going to be in after giving birth.

I sort of fall apart in terms of stamina after about 25 minutes!

You only hear the horror stories - that after a baby, you never get your body back - but it's not true; it depends on your life beforehand.

I always give myself a three-month period where I would just hibernate and wouldn't even think about the baby weight. I would just be with my baby in my own little world. And then, once I started getting more energy and wasn't so tired, then I would hit the gym.

Triathletes can push themselves quite hard, and I have seen people collapse on a barrier or pass out on a bike.

You cannot always play at 100 per cent, especially at the end of the season when you don't have much energy left.

I didn't think of my pregnancy as a handicap for one minute, but having said that, I think the only big challenge was being so tired all the time.

Because I'm training so much, I always have a lot of energy. Once I've finished training, I come home and have some down time, and then I realise it's 12:30 A.M. and I should have been in bed 2 hours ago. That can get annoying.

I wish new moms wouldn't be burdened with the pressure to get back into pre-baby shape so quickly.

There's an identity crisis that happens when you give birth. I don't care how confident, how secure you are, how much help you have, how many kids you have. For me, it was major.

Everyone told me to sleep when the baby sleeps, but she sleeps during the daytime, and that's when I have to get stuff done! I've been a zombie.

I played almost four hours today, ... Im very, very tired.

Basically, it's just fatigue, ... I've run out of gas a little bit. I've played a lot this summer, and the body's just telling me I'm fatigued.

After 120 kilometers my body said, ‘ooh, ooh Jens! What were you thinking?’