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Chris Evert Biography

Christine Marie Evert (born December 21, 1954), known as Chris Evert Lloyd from 1979 to 1987, is a former World No. 1 tennis player from the United States. She won 18 Grand Slam singles championships and three doubles titles. She was the year-ending World No. 1 singles player in 1974, 1975, 1976, 1977, 1978, 1980, and 1981. Overall, Evert won 157 singles championships and 32 doubles titles.

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Training the body to obey the mind as I have done differs from the more conventional method of getting the mind to obey the body.

Differs, Mind, Tennis, Training

Whatever your goal in life, be proud of every day that you are able to work in that direction.

Able, Direction, Goal, Proud, Work

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment. That quality is important because it stays with you the rest of your life, and there's going to be a life after tennis that's a lot longer than your tennis life.

Attitude, Life, Longer, Sports, Way, Winning

The difference is almost all mental. The top players just hate to lose. I think that's the difference. A champion hates to lose even more than she loves to win.

Difference, Hate, Players, Sports, Success, Top

I wanted always to appear strong and in control. . . . Then the cookie began to crumble.

Appear, Control, Cookies, Crumble, Strong, Wanted

If you can react the same way to winning and losing, that's a big accomplishment.

Accomplishment, Big, React, Tennis, Way, Winning

I think team sports probably teach you more about giving - about being unselfish and being flexible.

Sports, Teach, Team, Think, Thinking, Unselfish

To be a tennis champion, you have to be inflexible. You have to be stubborn. You have to be arrogant. You have to be selfish and self-absorbed. Kind of tunnel vision almost.

Inflexible, Selfish, Tennis, Tunnels, Vision

You pay a price for everything in life.

Everything, Life, Pay, Price

Find something that you're really interested in doing in your life. Pursue it, set goals, and commit yourself to excellence. Do the best you can.

Commit, Excellence, Goal, Interested, Pursue, Sports

If I win several tournaments in a row, I get so confident I'm in a cloud. A loss gets me eager again.

Eager, Gets, Loss, Sports, Win, Winning

You can't give up! If you give up, you're like everybody else.

Everybody, Give, Giving Up, Inspiring, Like, Strong Women

I was labeled at a young age - Miss Unemotional, Miss Cool, and that would carry over to my press conferences.

Age, Miss, Missing, Unemotional, Young

If you're a champion, you have to have it in your heart. You can have the greatest coaches in the world, all the opportunities to play, and the greatest equipment, but if you don't have it inside, you're not going to make it. On the other hand, if you don't have any of those luxuries but you have heart and courage and the guts to go out there and grind it out, then you'll make it.

Champion, Equipment, Hands, Heart, Make, Opportunity

In tennis, at the end of the day you're a winner or a loser. You know exactly where you stand. . . . I don't need that anymore. I don't need my happiness, my well-being, to be based on winning and losing.

Happiness, Know, Losing, Tennis, Winner, Winning

Relationships are give-and-take, and when you're a tennis player, you're certainly not giving. You have to be self-absorbed. It has to be about you.

Giving, Player, Relationships, Self, Tennis

I'm not getting within 20 feet of a married man ever again - not even talking to one!

Feet, Man, Married, Men, Talking

Ninety percent of my game is mental. It's my concentration that has gotten me this far. I won't even call a friend on the day of a match. I'm scared of disrupting my concentration. I don't allow any competition with tennis.

Game, Games, Mental, Ninety, Tennis, Wrestling

Losing hurts me. I was determined to be the best.

Determined, Hurt, Hurts, Losing

When I was in grade school and we had to write papers about what we wanted to be when we grew up, I wanted to be a social worker or a missionary or a teacher. Then I got involved with tennis, and everything was just me, me, me. I was totally selfish and thought about myself and nobody else, because if you let up for one minute, someone was going to come along and beat you. I really wouldn't let anyone or any slice of happiness enter. . . . I didn't like the characteristics that it took to become a champion.

Everything, Happiness, Selfish, Teacher, Thought, Worker

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