Martina Quotes

I went through very emotional things this year, like being in the French Open finals already feeling like you got it and kind of losing it. ~ Martina Hingis

I'm not involved in tennis but committed. ~ Martina Navratilova

I'm not fond of crunches or lunges, but I do them anyway because I do see results. For me it's about being fit and staying healthy more than anything else. ~ Martina Mcbride

If the person you were fighting had any kind of wound,worry it and keep at it And the pain would be much more intense.It was the psychological angle and all.Once a cut was there,it was human nature to try to protect it from more harm. ~ Martina Cole

I think we should all be tolerant of each other and embrace each others' strengths and differences and uniqueness and beauty. ~ Martina Mcbride

Growing up, Santa Claus would cover the presents with a white blanket, so when we'd wake up Christmas morning, we had to wait for my dad to do the big reveal of all the presents Santa brought. ~ Martina Mcbride

I grew up on the tennis court with lots of other kids. There were like 40 kids all afternoon and I was one of the youngest ones, so I always had to chase everybody to keep up. ~ Martina Hingis

I just try to concentrate on concentrating. ~ Martina Navratilova

The goal for the Laureus Sport For Good Foundation is to give kids an opportunity to be involved in sports and hopefully learn some lessons along the way. We want to put them in a safe environment, help them if they need it and maybe they will get a scholarship to a school because of the skills that they learn. Sport is just a starting point. ~ Martina Navratilova

Baby, I've tried to find a place inside your heart. Oh, but it's hard to start a fire without a spark. ~ Martina Mcbride

Disability is a matter of perception. If you can do just one thing well, you're needed by someone. ~ Martina Navratilova

What matters isn't how well you play when you're playing well. What mattersis how well you play when you're playing badly.'
- Martina Navratilova ~ Harsha Bhogle

Sometimes I wouldn't give an interview because I didn't have the time or something else was more important. So they come up with a story which I don't think is always true, but they have to sell papers. ~ Martina Hingis

I find this accusation so horrendous, so monstrous, that I have decided to confront it head-on by talking to the press. I am frustrated and angry. I believe that I am absolutely, 100 per cent innocent. I assure you: I have never taken drugs. ~ Martina Hingis

Somewhere out there are a few men with more innate talent at golf than Jack Nicklaus, or women with greater ability at tennis than Chris Evert or Martina Navratilova, but they will never lift a club or swing a racket and therefore will never find out how great they could have been. Instead, they'll be content to sit and watch stars perform on television. ~ Donald Trump

I have good anticipation, and good reaction to the the ball because I've played so many matches in my life. ~ Martina Hingis

I always make a joke that they transplanted Martina McBride's eyes and put them in my head. ~ Blake Shelton

Just by being out you're doing your part. It's like recycling. You're doing your part for the environment if you recycle; you're doing your part for the gay movement if you're out. ~ Martina Navratilova

Which was worse, telling a person you loved them when you didn't mean it? Or loving them and never telling them at all? ~ Martina Boone

What I would like my legacy to be is that of a person who took good care of her family and sang some songs that made a difference in some way. I hope I'll be remembered as somebody who was always down to earth and who handled her career and other people with honesty, integrity and class. ~ Martina Mcbride

My older brother was into Creedence Clearwater Revival and ZZ Top, and my sister was into pop radio. So somewhere along the line, I got into Ozzy Osbourne, REO Speedwagon, Heart, Pat Benetar, Journey. ~ Martina Mcbride

Sachin was so focused. He never looked like getting out. He was batting with single-minded devotion. It was truly remarkable. It was a lesson. ~ Martina Navratilova

The fewer mistakes you make twice, the easier life is. ~ Martina Navratilova

Before I was the hunter. Now I'm the hunted. ~ Martina Hingis

The decision to retire was quite an easy one for me because by that stage my knees were so badly gone. If I had been like Martina Navratilova and my body had let me I would have carried on playing a lot longer. ~ Jo Durie

I was always into music. And none of my friends were really into music the same way I was. So it was just different. It was really not very well understood by most of my friends. They didn't tease me about it - they just didn't really relate. ~ Martina Mcbride

I still speak Czech with my parents because I was born there. ~ Martina Hingis

Not only do I know how to milk a cow, but I know how to herd a bunch of cows, too, which is a life skill that I think may come in handy someday. ~ Martina Mcbride

I was always thin. I guess I have good genes, so I never worried too much about my weight. ~ Martina Mcbride

I always tell my three daughters, it's not about the number on the scale, it's how you feel. You know you are going to feel better if you eat healthier. ~ Martina Mcbride

God is great, but sometimes life ain't good and when I pray it doesn't always turn out like I think it should. But I do it anyway. ~ Martina Mcbride~lyrics From "Anyway"

Keeping a journal of what's going on in your life is a good way to help you distill what's important and what's not. ~ Martina Navratilova

The more books you read, the less topics you have in common with most of the people, that´s the price you pay for reading. ~ Martina Tutková

Sometimes you just can't have what you want so you have to settle for the best you can get. ~ Martina Reilly

I'm an American. You can't go on where you were born. If you do then John McEnroe would be a German. ~ Martina Navratilova

The thing about my fridge is, it's a family fridge, so there's a little of something everybody likes in there. ~ Martina Mcbride

What I would tell girls coming up is just be yourself and don't let people get in the way. ~ Martina Navratilova

I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial. ~ Martina Mcbride

It doesn't matter how great your shoes are if you don't accomplish anything in them. ~ Martina Boone

You either have fans who stick with you, or they don't. It comes down to making music that people connect with and great fans. ~ Martina Mcbride

Barrie wanted to fall into him, her lost to his found, her need to his want. Kissing was like the physical form of magic, all potential and the sense that anything might happen. When she was kissing Eight, she felt like she could fly. ~ Martina Boone

Hope is possibly the only inexhaustible resource on earth. ~ Martina Boone

Life is about challenges and how we face up to them and the attitude we take into every day life so hopefully we'll be able to motivate people to do more with their life. ~ Martina Navratilova

All top players are the same strokewise, but mentally I can improve and that's where it's at for top players. ~ Martina Navratilova

I like the creativity of planning a party, or cooking and taking care of people, creating a memorable meal or event. ~ Martina Mcbride

Anybody who's in the dressing room after the show always says, "Oh, my God, I was kind of worried that the show was going to be sleepy because you were half asleep, yawning, and not really present." ~ Martina Sorbara

Martina Navratilova said in the early '90s that Seles would inspire the players of the future to also use two-handed forehands. That didn't happen, but she is responsible for the all-out aggression with which most of the top players play. All the low trajectory shots hit with just moderate amounts of spin and traveling into the corners like heat-seeking missiles? You guessed it, Monica's to blame. ~ Dave McPherson

Just go out there and do what you have to do. ~ Martina Navratilova

What rivalry? I win all the matches. ~ Martina Hingis

A statue stands in a shaded place
An angel girl with an upturned face
A name is written on a polished rock
A broken heart that the world forgot ~ Martina Mcbride

It is easier to do a job right than to explain why you didn't. ~ Martina Navratilova

I was into all kinds of music as a teen - country music, because my dad was in a band that played country, and whatever my sister and brother were into. ~ Martina Mcbride

I'm just the instrument for the song to do whatever it's supposed to do-heal, inspire or encourage. It's not all about me, it's about the song. I'm just the lucky girl who gets to sing these songs. ~ Martina Mcbride

Everyone's going to have a better time if I'm not confused on stage about who I am. ~ Martina Sorbara

Ultimately, wasn't dance a whispered question? A story told through the position of a foot, the tilt of a head, the touch of a hand, the brush of an eye. A rite of passage. A claiming. ~ Martina Boone

Concentration is born on the practice court ... you must mentally treat your practice sessions as matches, concentrating on every ball you hit. ~ Martina Navratilova

Create a nice moment for yourself at least once a day. ~ Martina O'Flaherty

At the beginning of every week, I like to sit down and figure out what I'm going to make. I probably try at least two new recipes a week. But I have my standbys - jambalaya, meatloaf and mashed potatoes. ~ Martina Mcbride

Perceptions were fickle things, as formless as smoke and just as dangerous. ~ Martina Boone

The moment of victory is much too short to live for that and nothing else. ~ Martina Navratilova

I think the shows are better when I feel like myself. ~ Martina Sorbara

A smile and a sword - the way to conquer kingdoms. ~ Martina Boone

He had found many years ago before that if you kept very quiet people filled in the silences themselves,offering more information than they had originally intended to give. ~ Martina Cole

A big part of who I am is just the way I was raised. Nobody is better than anyone else, and if you really work hard, you might get lucky and get what you want. ~ Martina Mcbride

People only know what you tell them.And it was true.People gave out their whole life stories to anyone and everyone without a second's thought.Stand at a bus stop,sit in a strange pub,get banged up,and someone would always give you their life story.It was as if they were trying to prove they existed ~ Martina Cole

Sorry' isn't a synonym for 'guilty.' It's a way to say you're listening. ~ Martina Boone

I always have apples and fruit in the house. It's easier to eat something healthy if it's within reach. I also have yogurt, cheese and crackers, and raw almonds. ~ Martina Mcbride

My worst memory is of my first dance lesson as a 14-year old in Prague. My mother put me in this silver and pink lame dress. My hair was all curled, and it was the first time I wore a garter belt. I felt so out of place! ~ Martina Navratilova

Murder is always wrong, doesn't matter who does the killin'. Hurtin' someone else is always wrong. Everyone's got their burdens. The way the world is, we need faith and hope and joyful praise more than ever to get through. ~ Martina Boone

Sometimes, though, we let ourselves get so used to being 'fine' that we lose track of how 'not fine' we are. ~ Martina Boone

The mark of great sportsmen is not how good they are at their best, but how good they are their worst. ~ Martina Navratilova

You can't have relationships if you're not willing to open yourself up and lean on people as much as you want them to lean on you. ~ Martina Boone

I find I always throw limbs here and there in my lyrics. I kind of put my physical self into the songs. ~ Martina Sorbara

Pushing through fear was what eventually set you free. ~ Martina Boone

If it feels right in your gut, this is who you are, this is what you do, this is what you feel, then don't hide that. You just stick to it and the world will catch up. ~ Martina Navratilova

Tennis has given me soul. ~ Martina Navratilova

Faith is

Feeling Alive In The Heart. ~ Martina E. Faulkner

I am happy that women can relate to my songs, and hopefully men can too. ~ Martina Mcbride

I love to sing with great singers. ~ Martina Mcbride

One day you can be a kid, but another day you have to be like this is your job, you play tennis. You have to work for that. ~ Martina Hingis

Frost is back - this is a brilliant read, I can't recommend it highly enough. ~ Martina Cole

But the people who mattered were the people you chose instead of the people who were yours by an accident of birth. Real family was heart as much as, if not more than, blood. ~ Martina Boone

Martina Green: Today is Tuesday, February eleventh, and Zoe Spanos has been missing for six weeks to the day. Last Friday, the Herron Mills Village PD declared Zoe a runaway, and that's why I'm here, talking to you. Because if you know Zoe, you know she didn't run away.

Zoe Spanos is missing. And we're missing Zoe ~ Kit Frick

The teacher wonders but she doesn't ask It's hard to see the pain behind the mask Bearing the burden of a secret storm Sometimes she wishes she was never born ~ Martina Mcbride

I've never had big problems about being long on the court. During the U.S. Open I played three events (singles, doubles, mixed doubles) and some people asked me if I want to stay overnight on the court. ~ Martina Hingis

I've realized that a lot of life is not what you say,see,it's what you don't say.People have to make up their own minds then.It's like a game, and only we know the rules. ~ Martina Cole

No, because I think I have a reason to believe in myself and I think I'm also pretty confident about who I am and what I'm doing and it might be because I'm still at the top too. ~ Martina Hingis

Security used to be an inconvenience sometimes, but now it's a necessity all the time. ~ Martina Navratilova

I've been active in animal rights and all kinds of environmental stuff and children's charities over the years. ~ Martina Navratilova

Through the wind and the rain
She stands hard as a stone
In a world that she can't rise above
But her dreams give her wings
And she flies to a place where she's loved
Concrete angel ~ Martina Mcbride

I wanted to make a record that people could put on year after year after year, and it would never feel dated. ~ Martina Mcbride

The tennis ball doesn't know how old I am. The ball doesn't know if I'm a man or a woman or if I come from a communist country or not. Sport has always broken down these barriers. ~ Martina Navratilova

Keep the story alive," he said. "Memory cheats death. ~ Martina Devlin

You're asking me to look into the future and give you guarantees. Magic isn't a recipe for baking cake. ~ Martina Boone

I've been on top longer and I am younger. I'm just better. ~ Martina Hingis

Well, maybe at home I don't have the best image. ~ Martina Hingis

Just put one foot in front of the other and don't worry about the length of the path. Once you get on that path, and the longer you stay on it, there eventually will come a time when you will not turn back. ~ Martina Navratilova

My desire is to stand by the fire that burns inside of you. ~ Martina Mcbride

She'd always hated greys, and all their shades ~ Martina Munzittu

I haven't bought any leather articles for a very long time. My ideal is to be able to avoid all animal products, in food as well as clothing. ~ Martina Navratilova