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.

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'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.

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

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 like music and dancing.

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

I've always had an obsession with rackets.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

Trees always remind me of Aboriginal people.

I hated school.

I had a bit of a reputation as a tomboy.

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

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.