Chris Evert Quotes

I've stayed calm when I'm winning and I've stayed calm when I've lost. Tennis is a sport where we have a lot of tournaments every week, so you can't celebrate a lot when you have big victories, and you cannot get too down when you're losing, as in a few days you'll be in the next tournament and you'll have to be ready with that.

Whether you win a match or lose a match, in terms of your emotions, it's important to be pretty levelheaded.

What cracks me up is people who think I don't take baseball seriously. It's the most important thing in my life. They don't know how hard it is for me to get a bad game out of my mind. I still can't, but I'm getting better.

You try to hide your emotions, so as not to show weaknesses to others. I believe it's the same for every sportsman.

I don't really get too high or too low. I think when you have a big tournament, that's the important thing: managing emotion.

I would cry after losses when I was a kid and pout. But I played like that.

I do not let a bad score ruin my enjoyment for golf.

I tend to wear my emotions on my sleeve. I've had my share of mood swings, believe me. But it's a powerful thing when you realize that you have dominion over your behavior and your passions.

I have this terrible dark side to my personality, which playing tennis keeps at bay.

As a tennis player you can win and you can lose, and you have to be ready for both. I practised self-control as a kid. But as you get older they both - winning and losing - get easier.

Athletes have to be confident and I am thinking like that.

It's just a game. I love it. And yeah, I get frustrated, but I try to not let it get me too upset. I mean, I don't get upset over bad shots or anything like that.

My mental strength was definitely a weakness back in the karting days, and I've worked hard on that to be as ready as possible for whenever I had the chance in F1.

Emotion is a good thing, but top level football can be tough, and you have to be in control.

Steve Davis has found a way of competing to a level that is not as high as it once was, enjoying his wins, and not getting too angry about the defeats.

I will never go into a game aggressive because I will cost my team the victory if I am reckless. If I have got a personal vendetta with someone, or I don't like the way someone has done something to me in the game, I am just going to have to get over it.

As a pitcher, you can't afford to get too ticked off.

I don't want sadness or happiness to affect my life.

Every good tennis player has to have a short memory. Good or bad.

Moral victories are really more for coaches than players.

I try not to get too high off the highs or too low off the lows.

Good golfing temperament falls between taking it with a grin or shrug and throwing a fit.

A strong person will not be nervous and not express aggression towards his opponent... he will face the fight calm and balanced.

Sports can do so much. They've given me a framework: meeting new people, confidence, self-esteem, discipline, motivation. All these things I learned, whether I knew I was learning them or not, through sports.

Not only is there more to life than basketball, there's a lot more to basketball than basketball.