Chris Evert Quotes

I want to race as long as I'm having fun, it's competitive and healthy, and who knows when that, you know, date comes when that's not happening anymore.

Getting past 30 as a sportsman, the end could be just around the corner.

World class players don't become rubbish overnight, especially over one tour.

Whenever you enjoy it, you always play the best football.

That's one thing I relish, the pressure of having to try and beat the best teams in the world.

I just play because I enjoy the sport.

I think, for me, I just really want to have fun with every match that I play because tennis is a game.

Football is a game you're supposed to have fun in.

I like every competition I can play.

It's a lot of fun to fight.

I mean, our job is - we're baseball players, we have to go to work. But when it all boils down, we're just a bunch of kids out there having fun trying to entertain people.

I used to be a person who just peaked for the big events, not doing too many competitions, but now you've got to go round chasing all the points because if you're not taking them, someone else is.

I think there's something to baseball, golf, fishing that there's downtime within all of those sports. Even though you're still doing the sport and everything that's involved, there's still this time to be able to think and have conversations.

I play my best when I'm enjoying myself. So whoever I play against, I try to have fun.

I create, put it out, repeat. Like, me and my friends, we play Uno and Connect Four a lot. I'm having fun, and I don't care about how many times I won or lost - I just want to keep playing the game.

Everyone wants to have fun playing football. A person goes to the stadium to have fun.

I feel like I've been very underrated and very kind of disrespected so far in my career. I just take the same approach every time out: try to go out there and dominate and be the best player on the court.

There will be a time when I physically cannot do this sport.

I'm not under any pressure. I'm just a kid having fun playing basketball.

Winning is very addictive, that's why it's very hard when suddenly - boom - you are not the favorites any more.

I always beat Jankovic so who do you think I want to play?

Work, as we usually think of it, is energy expended for a further end in view; play is energy expended for its own sake, as with children's play, or as manifestation of the end or goal of work, as in "playing" chess or the piano. Play in this sense, then, is the fulfillment of work, the exhibition of what the work has been done for.

I want to retire in New York, let's be quite frank. I think a lot of people jumped the gun when I said I wanted to be a free agent. And yeah, I want people to come to play in New York. I want them to want to play in New York. I want New York to be that place where guys want to come play.

I can't play any more. I can't hit the ball when I need to. I can't steal second when I need to. I can't go from first to third when I need to. I can't score from second when I need to. I have to quit.

I would like to compare football and cinema. I think it's very similar. It's two games... different games. You have to work very hard and find the confidence to enjoy it on the pitch or in the film.