When youre a famous, successful person at 16 years old, the rules change for you. Everybody is doing things for you to make life easier so you can go out and play. And I think you miss out on lot of growing up and a lot of reality checks. – Chris Evert
I think team sports probably teach you more about giving – about being unselfish and being flexible. – Chris Evert
Every time, all the time, Im a perfectionist. I feel I should never lose. – Chris Evert
Being famous before youve formed your personality, before you have that self-esteem, is dangerous. – Chris Evert
There was George, throwing away in hideous sloth the inestimable gift of time; his valuable life, every second of which he would have to account for hereafter, passing away from him, unused…. sprawling there, sunk in soul-clogging oblivion. – Jerome K. Jerome, Three Men in a Boat (To Say Nothing of the Dog), 1889