Quotes About Independence

Girls should go on thinking that there is a world out there and that it is theirs for the taking.

The beauty of my sport is that you can do it from anywhere.

I am very slow to warm. I've always been sort of a loner. I didn't play team sports. I am better one-on-one than in big groups

I've swum for my country, I've swum for my coaches and my schools and my teams. I decided this time I was going to swim for myself.

It is of far more important that a man shall play something himself, even if he plays it badly, than that he shall go with hundreds of companions to see someone else play well.

I've got a lot of years to live after baseball and I would like to live them with the complete use of my body.

I believe in women. I believe in myself. I believe in my body.

I don't want to be famous famous. I'm happy on the second tier, where I have autonomy on a professional level but I can still go out to the movies without being recognized.

Tennis is not like other sports where the coach is hired by an independent entity, and that makes a huge difference in the dynamic.

I didn't really care if I had a coach that much, me personally, because I was brought up to think for myself.

Surfing is real private. It's a solo, loner sport.

If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.

I didn't come to New York to be a star. I brought my star with me.

The woman who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The woman who walks alone is likely to find herself in places no one has ever been before.

Blind belief in authority is the greatest enemy of truth.

At least once a day, allow yourself the freedom to think and dream for yourself.

It gives me great pleasure indeed to see the stubbornness of an incorrigible nonconformist warmly acclaimed.

Be a loner. That gives you time to wonder, to search for the truth. Have holy curiosity. Make your life worth living.

Everything that is really great and inspiring is created by the individual who can labor in freedom.

Everyone must become their own person, however frightful that may be.

The person who follows the crowd will usually go no further than the crowd. The person who walks alone is likely to find himself in places no one has ever seen before.

Organized people are just too lazy to go looking for what they want.

The pursuit of knowledge for its own sake, an almost fanatical love of justice and the desire for personal independence -- these are the features of the Jewish tradition which make me thank my stars that I belong to it.

I am thankful for all of those who said NO to me. It's because of them I'm doing it myself.