Quotes from Evonne Goolagong Cawley

There are about 100 Aboriginal communities in Australia, and I'm trying to visit as many as possible to learn as much as I can.

I love the atmosphere of shopping in London. Sometimes I just go into a boutique, not to buy but to listen to the music.

I hope that I am helping to create an understanding and an awareness of what happened to the Aboriginal people.

I know, everybody thinks that all Aussies love beer. I guess most of them do, but not me.

My greatest high was to hit a ball well, to try to do it perfectly, to try different things, whether they came off or not.

I think It would be quite fun to play Bobby Riggs.

We couldn't afford anything. Suitcase, clothes, everything, Barellan people bought for me.

I started by hitting balls against walls with an apple crate board.

I'm just tired of having to say 'cheese' all the time for the press.

Concentration may be my weak point.

I don't think of myself as being colored but of being Australian.

After I make some bad shots, it makes me bear down and concentrate more.

I know how to get around London better than Sydney.

I can't wear the same outfit twice without washing it. And tennis is a grueling occupation.

Whenever a car would come down the road, my mum would tell us to hide 'or else the welfare man would take you away.'

Every time there was a shiny car, my mum must have worried it was the welfare people coming for her kids. We had no idea.

In team tennis, when you're downed, you play harder because there are other people depending upon you.

The white explorers had been my heroes. The Aborigines, I thought they were real savages. That was what I'd been taught and that's what I believed.

Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.

Well, Margaret Court was the first one, first professional woman - or maybe man - to actually take it into the gyms. She worked out on her body, she was very strong, very fast on the court.

Tennis, for me, every time I went out on the court, it just gave me such joy to play.

Billie Jean King is the personality of women's tennis.

Because I've had time off, I've learned to appreciate tennis more - to put something back into it.

I always just thought of myself as a tennis player.