Martina Navratilova Quotes

I'm a total nonconformist; for me, it's about going down rabbit holes.

I've never been a yes man.

I don't live by a lot of society's rules; I can't pattern myself after the herd.

I'm somebody who doesn't believe in conforming to maybe whatever is on the radio.

Since I'm a contrarian, I don't want to go along with what everyone else thinks.

Me, I like to go against the grain.

I think I always had, like, a rebellious spirit. But it wasn't a rebellious spirit to do wrong. It was a rebellious spirit to do something different.

I learned the word non-conformist in fourth grade and immediately announced that I would grow up to become one.

Beaten paths are for beaten men.

I like to go against the grain, against what's out there. Every day is like a challenge.

Thank goodness I was never sent to school; it would have rubbed off some of the originality.

I'm bad at doing what I'm told. I'm a born free thinker.

A heretic is a man who sees with his own eyes.

I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.

The creative individual has the capacity to free himself from the web of social pressures in which the rest of us are caught. He is capable of questioning the assumptions that the rest of us accept.

I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.

I've never been very good at fitting into boxes.

I have a bit of a rebellious nature.

I've never been one to just do what I'm told. I don't say that necessarily with pride, it's just something that has gotten me in trouble before.

I never follow anybody's path, what they've done.

I am anti-ideological. Ideology destroys your freedom. It binds you to the herd.

… a controlled disrespect for authority is essential to a scientist.

I make no concessions to conformism.

I like arriving somewhere and taking a left when someone tells you to go right. When all the tourist signs are pointing one way, it's exciting to go the other.

I've always had a desire to live on the outside. That's where I'm most comfortable.