If you didn't have power, you had to have touch and serve and volley, which I found very exciting and that's why I love watching Federer play, because of those skills.

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.

After I was fortunate enough to achieve my dreams on the court, I have done my best to, in turn, help young people achieve theirs.

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.

I was so hungry to learn my history, to really know who I was.

My goal is to share information and to educate. But am I an activist? No, no, no. I don't believe in pushing things on people.

I even opened a nightclub called Evonne's.

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

I was just feeling really down and didn't want to play tennis anymore and when I was feeling down like that, what helped me is that I went back to my culture. To walk the Earth.

I went through a tough time after leaving 'tennis.

When I was playing on the tour, I never really thought about the Hall of Fame because you're always thinking about your game and how you can do better.

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

I love to fish. I love the peacefulness of being around the water.

I have won a few trophies in my time but I have never had a major event name their trophy after me.

I used to say during my career that the biggest gift was having my children.

I know that from my own experience, after I had my daughter Kelly, I felt great. I just wanted to get back on that court.

What happened to equal opportunity? Not just in tennis, but everything. It's something that Billie Jean King fought for and she played Bobby Riggs for that, and beat him.

I had to stay in school before I started travelling overseas.

I had a bit of a reputation as a tomboy.

I hated school.

Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.

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

Nobody expected me to win Wimbledon. It was something to strive for.

In 1971, big tournaments were very new to me. I just thought Wimbledon was one of the other tournaments.

Now that my daughter is 9 and my son is 5, I'm starting to enjoy tennis more. I've been asked to play in the over 35s, and I may do that.

It's nice to know you're improving and getting better.

Of course, I'm trying to be No. 1.

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

I guess I had that insecurity of missing out on the normal things that everybody else does. With all the traveling I was doing I felt I was leaving something behind.

You're not just playing for yourself but for your country, and that's nerve-wracking. It makes you work harder.

I won Wimbledon when I was 19 and again after I had a child.

When Kelly was born, I thought seriously about retirement. But I wanted to see if it was possible to mix being a mother with tennis and the two combined very well.

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

I don't like rushing, just like to sit down and rest before a match. Half the time I don't even look at the draw.

I like music and dancing.

I just have these lapses. Guess I'm stuck with it. But I play better when I get behind. I say to myself, 'Now I have to play well.'

I keep saying to myself, 'I'm in New York.' I've heard so much about it. It's big, isn't it?

I'd much rather people knew me as a good tennis player than as an aboriginal who happens to play good tennis. Of course I'm proud of my race, but I don't want to be thinking about it all the time.

Mum and Dad have come to Sydney to see me off on the two trips to Wimbledon. Each time I thought I mustn't cry 'cos that'll start Mum off. Each time I really bawled, and then she started up.

I don't want to talk about apartheid... I'm going to South Africa to play tennis and to see the country. That's as far as it goes.

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 know how to get around London better than Sydney.

I like to be nervous, as I push myself harder.

When I walk out on to the court and everyone is staring, sometimes I wonder how my legs will carry me out there. That's forgotten as soon as I start playing.

I don't know whether I'm half, quarter or what. I just know I'm aboriginal.

I first started out by hitting a ball against a wall when I was four.

I think how I'm playing, not who I'm playing.

Losing isn't bitter because it's temporary.

I'll get married when I'm sick of tennis.

A man could and would wipe me off the court. I really feel that the male is naturally superior to the female in all endeavors.