Evonne Goolagong Cawley Quotes

I want to keep working with the best, keep going and be a better actor each time I go and dive into something.

The day I'm not improving will be the day I hang up the racket.

The Heisman - it would be a privilege and an honor to receive that award, but at the end of the day, I want to be the best I can be at my position and for my team.

I'm not going to play with a filter anymore; I'm going to play the game I need to play to be a great player for my team.

If you're fighting for any other reason than wanting to be the best in the sport, then you're not going to make it.

I am changing the culture in this Pakistan environment and I am not interested in players doing just the bare minimum. I want players winning us games of cricket and pushing themselves to be the best they can be.

When my career is over, I want to say to myself that I've done whatever I could to be the best footballer I could be.

I would like to be remembered as a boxer who tried to do his best.

What I want out of tennis is not necessarily just winning.

The experience of being an Olympian is one that can never be taken away from you.

Whatever it is you're doing, whether it's your career or a particular focus, if you're trying to be the best you can possibly be, then you'll be putting that pressure on yourself.

Today I join the greatest players that played the game. It is a great feeling being here.

I respect the Hall of Fame, and if they think that I'm worthy enough, I would be very honored. And if they don't, I gave it all that I had to this game.

In a person's career, well, if you're process-oriented and not totally outcome-oriented, then you're more likely to be success. I often say 'pursue excellence, ignore success.' Success is a by-product of excellence.

Making the Hall of Fame, would it be something that's gratifying because of what I've sacrificed? Sure. Baseball has been a big part of our lives. We've sacrificed our bodies. It's the way we made our living.

Honestly, it's not the medals that I feel so proud of. It's the way I conducted myself as an athlete, the hard work that I put forward.

You know, I don't only play for the record books.

Let us suppose you become a craneman. Suppose you become a clerk in a lawyer's office. Give the best that is in you. Let nothing stand in the way of your going on.

I think I started to have thoughts to really want to be serious about my work when I was about twenty-five, and I just kind of started to look into that direction and moved into it.

You'd like more people to recognise what you do is special. But I take the attitude that the best thing I can do for my sport is to be the best at it. The best way people will come to recognise that track and field is a great sport is to see athletes excelling at it. Which is what I intend to do.

Hopefully, my teammates will say that I was important and that I gave it everything and I didn't leave anything to chance my whole career. To be mentioned as Hall-worthy is a great thing.

I want my team to win and to be the best player I can possibly be.

For me now, I will continue to focus ever harder on my goal of being the very best I can be with Toulon Rugby Club and continue to embrace and enjoy wherever that path takes me.

I want to do my hard dives really well, I want to see what my true potential in this sport really is. I want to grasp that.

I am an honest, God-fearing man who is intensely dedicated to being the best person I can be on and off the football field.