Martina Navratilova Quotes

An artist is maybe not always having a normal life.

You're not always going to have a perfect day. You're not always going to have the day that you envision.

The twists and turns of your life can be so unexpected, and that's a good thing to learn.

Strong and in control - I don't necessarily feel that way. I'm a little bit more scattered in my life. I'm more of a street girl, in a way.

People say I'm controversial. But I think I lead a very balanced and normal life.

What I do doesn't sit well in the world of hipsterville. I don't have a cool card, but I also don't have thin skin.

Life never works out the way you think it will. But you just have to deal with it.

I don't know if I thrive in normal life.

I never went to fashion school. I didn't know what a designer was. I knew I had something, but I didn't know what it was. And it could just have easily been nothing.

I don't have a normal life.

Prepare for the unknown by studying how others in the past have coped with the unforeseeable and the unpredictable.

You know how if you're born in a certain situation you always expect your life to run on a steady trajectory? I've never really had a sense of that. I assume that life is going to go up and down.

I sort of enjoy the fact that I'm misunderstood most of the time. That's fine.

But since day one, we've always been kinda up against it. So at the end, it's not surprising that we were kind of led along for so many months and didn't know what the fate of the show was gonna be. It was... in a weird way, just kind of that was the way it's always been.

I've always operated so far outside my lane, I'm not sure what lane is mine anymore.

I don't like to let people know where I'm going to end up, and I don't personally like to know where I'm going.

Adaptability is a great asset to have because life is so unpredictable, and things can change overnight for any of us.

I think I'll always draw from being a person that doesn't know how to have a normal life, whatever a normal life is.

I'm used to things not coming in the packages you expect.

If you can, anticipate that life is going to be full of detours.

Anytime you kind of take the road that I've taken, people don't know what to expect.

Whatever happens will happen, that's the rollercoaster of life. What matters is how you handle the slumps.

My life and career have been a big improvisation.

Growing up, I would think I want to do this, I want to do that. You change your mind a million times.

I don't want to be normal, I don't want to grow up.