Chris Evert Quotes

I use discipline and focus as my greatest weapons.

Concentrate . . . for the greatest achievements are reserved for the man of single aim, in whom no rival powers divide the empire of the soul.

I wanted to be a world champion.

I'm trying to go to the playoffs. That's my goal. Everything else is going to fall in place.

I don't care what you do in life. To say that that year I was the absolute best, especially when you're in a team sport - and I have more of a personality that I wished I would've played an individual sport - to win a championship, to get 60 people and focused in one direction and do it over a seven-month period is phenomenal.

My only focus is on our games and my performances - they are the most important things.

It takes a lot of hard work to stay committed and focus on what I wanted to achieve.

The difference between the greats and the legends is their ability to focus for longer periods of time.

Your ability to concentrate single-mindedly on one thing, the most important thing, and stay at it until it is complete, is an essential prerequisite for success.

You have to keep your goal in mind and never lose sight of it. I envisioned myself winning the heavyweight title for ten years before I actually captured it. If you're not driven to do your best, you'll never reach the level of excellence in your life.

I had to persevere because this was my life. This championship, this was the stuff I dreamt of all my life, and I wasn't gonna be denied.

The secret to success in any human endeavor is total concentration.

Singlemindedness is all-powerful.

If it was easy everyone would be a champion, so you've got to decide if you're that person that's going to be a champion.

The first requisite of success is the ability to apply your physical and mental energies to one problem without growing weary.

FOCUS - Follow One Course Until Successful

Purpose, and to be thoroughly wedded to that purpose, is three quarters of salvation.

Success isn't winning every time. A lot of different factors go into every race, and you can't control all of them. Success means doing as excellent a job as you can on that particular day. The people I admire most aren't necessarily the most wonderful athletes. I admire the ones who keep coming back and doing it, time after time.

Concentrate on something useful. Having decided to achieve a task, achieve it at all costs.

You can have all the talent in the world, but without determination, you won't get very far.

During the off-season when you see other people playing in the Super Bowl, you wonder, and you say to yourself, 'Are you ever gonna get there and see what it feels like?' And it pushes you a little bit harder during that off-season to work to try to get there the following year.

I don't think about goals and records. Competition is what keeps me playing.

Success demands singleness of purpose.

Those who attain any excellence, commonly spend life in one pursuit; for excellence is not often gained upon easier terms.

I know what it takes to get to the top.